Ecclesiaticus 44:1-15 – World War I Memorial Cross – Kildwick, UK
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Their Name Liveth For Evermore’ located on the base of a combined World War I and World War II Cross memorial near the entrance to the churchyard of St. Andrews church.
Waymark Code: WMJ6DR
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/01/2013
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Rudyard Kipling was a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission formed after WW I. This quotation was originally chosen by him for use on the garden-like British war graves erected along the Western Front. Since then it has been used on many other war memorials.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English poet and novelist, probably most famous as the writer of the Jungle Book which was later turned into the famous Disney cartoon. He was originally born in India to English parents.
Kipling's only son, John, died in 1915 at the Battle of Loos, and it was partly in response to this tragedy that he joined the commission. He came up with a number of phrases used on various types of memorials, but the one most often seen is the one shown here.
“Their Name Liveth For Evermore” comes from Ecclesiasticus 44:1-15 which is a book from the Apocrypha, not normally accepted as Scripture. For this reason you will not find it in some Bibles.
The United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials
website for this memorial describes it as an
“ELABORATELY FLORIATED CROSS ON GOTHIC COLUMN, SQUARE PLINTH AND TWO STEP CRUCIFORM BASE.“
It was erected in May 1921 and designed by Cecil G. Hare. A plaque was added to commemorate the Second World War.
The text of the plaque with the quotation is as follows.
IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
THIS PARISH AND NEIGH-
BOURHOOD, WHO, IN THE
GREAT WAR, 1914-1919, GAVE
THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE
OF LIBERTY AND RIGHT.
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"