Stone of Remembrance
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The Stone of Remembrance is a standardised design for war memorials that was designed in 1917 by the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Imperial War Graves Commission. It was designed to comm
Florence War Cemetery in Italy
Unveiling ceremony for a Stone of Remembrance in 1924
Children with a wreath-laden Stone of Remembrance on Anzac Day in 1924
Bretteville-sur-Laize Cemetery
"Their name liveth for evermore" is a phrase from the Book of Sirach, chapter 44, verse 14, widely inscribed on war memorials since the First World War. Although the Book of Sirach is not included in
Stone of Remembrance
…inscriptions and other literary matters, and the phrase used on the Stones of Remembrance is a quote from the Wisdom of Sirach. (Ecclesiasticus 44:14) THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE World War I memorials…
"Their name liveth for evermore" inscribed on the Stone of Remembrance at the Buttes New British Cemetery, in Belgium