Imperial Noble Consort Qinggong (1724 - 1774) was a consort of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
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—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
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