War Graves
The cemetery contains the graves of 44 Commonwealth service personnel, 21 from World War I and 23 from World War II.
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Famous quotes by war graves:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—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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