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@VenetiaJane @corneliagracchi Kipling never found the grave of his son, missing in action, at Loos, 1915.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Nov 2021

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

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Quoted by@conalabu @ahistoryinart 1/ "Supposing him to be the gardener." After his son's death, Kipling wrote, "If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied." (Epitaphs of the War) An early, prominent supporter of the Great War, he wrote 'The Gardener' while searching for John's grave.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @theabhayk @DalrympleWill @jorgeheinel @PritishNandy @mkoirala @holdengraber After his son's death, in a poem titled "Epitaphs of the War", Kipling wrote "If any question why we died / Tell them, because our fathers lied."Quoted by@theabhayk @DalrympleWill @jorgeheinel @PritishNandy @mkoirala @holdengraber After his son's death, in a poem titled "Epitaphs of the War", Kipling wrote "If any question why we died / Tell them, because our fathers lied."