Person    | Male  Born 10/8/1869  Died 10/3/1943

Laurence Binyon

Categories: Poetry

Poet.  Born Lancaster.  Worked at the British Museum and become expert in Chinese and Japanese art. Wrote 'For the Fallen' in 1914. Red Cross volunteer at the Western Front in WW1.  Died in a nursing home, Reading.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

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Laurence Binyon

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Bermondsey war memorial

Quotations come from John Maxwell Edmonds and Laurence Binyon.

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Bethnal Green Library war memorial

On our first visit there was no plaque, but the 'ghost' marks on the plinth s...

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British Museum War Memorial

Designed and carved by Eric Gill.

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Cyprus Street war memorial

"They shall grow not old..." is by Binyon. "When you go home..." is by Maxwel...

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Festing Road residents killed in WW1

The first quotation is adapted from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon The s...

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Tagore Centre UK

Tagore Centre UK

Dedicated to promoting the work and life of Rabindranath Tagore.

Group, Community / Clubs, Poetry

1 memorial
Gavin Ewart

Gavin Ewart

Poet. Born 25 Norfolk Crescent. First published aged 17. Died at a hospice in Clapham.

Person, Poetry

1 memorial
Theodore Watts-Dunton

Theodore Watts-Dunton

Writer and poet. Born at St Ives in the former county of Huntingdonshire as Walter Theodore Watts. He later added his mother's maiden surname. He had a particular interest in gypsy lore and publish...

Person, Poetry

1 memorial
Rohit Sapra
1 memorial
William Cowper

William Cowper

Poet and hymn writer.  Born Berkhamsted.  Spent his early years at Westminster School.  His work includes 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin' concerning a rather disorganised journey from Cheaps...

Person, Poetry

3 memorials

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W. H. Hawkins

Church warden of St Dunstans Stepney, 1844.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
C. W. Arnill

C. W. Arnill

Loughton resident killed in WW1, in 1916.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial