Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

Final words. By 1921, 1,362 British veterans, recruited as cemetery gardeners and tied by their own suffering and sacrifice, were tending to dead comrades, buried in foreign fields. In 1925, visiting Rouen cemetery, ‘this Dead Sea of arrested lives’, Kipling wrote ‘The Gardener.’ x.com/holland_tom/status/1325411040524439552