Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@britgardhistory 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. The context then, for Kipling's tragic tale. ?s=20
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Sept 2023
@culturaltutor Powerfully affected me as a teen, visiting those cemeteries. Most of the dead barely a year or two older than me it seemed and the gravestones went on forever. 'This Dead Sea of arrested lives,' Kipling called them. Have you read his short-story, 'The Gardener'?
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