Ecclesiaticus 44:1-15 – World War I Memorial - Brighouse, UK
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Their Name Liveth For Evermore’ located on the plinth of a combined World War I and World War II memorial
Waymark Code: WMV0BP
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/01/2017
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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 monument comprises of an allegorical statue of a winged Victory standing on a globe, holding a wreath in her outstretched right hand. It stands on a stone column with a carved torch and wreath on the north face and a sword and wreath on the south face.
The monument has a number of inscriptions.
Underneath the sword
THEIR NAME LIVETH
FOR EVERMORE
1914 - 1918
At the base of the memorial
AND IN HONOUR OF
THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY
1939 - 1945