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Burwash War Memorial
Burwash War Memorial
Remembering the lives of people commemorated on the WW1 memorial in Burwash, East Sussex, and/or on the Roll of Honour inside the church there. Those commemorated by this memorial included John Kipling, the son of the poet Rudyard Kipling, who was posted as missing in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Loos, and not confirmed killed until three years later. In 1917 Rudyard Kipling was appointed a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission. He approved all, and composed many, of the epitaphs used by the Commission on its memorials, and wrote pamphlets explaining the policy of the Commission and helped to defend its work in Parliamentary debates. Responsible for the language used for memorial inscriptions, he is attributed with the use of the phrases "Their Name Liveth for Evermore" on numerous memorials (including the Burwash one), and "A Soldier of the Great War known unto God" on CWGC gravestones. The Burwash memorial is very unusual because of the lantern on top which is lit on the anniversary of the deaths of every man commemorated.
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Died 1916
British Army G/3904 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 9th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 4498 Private Royal West Kent Regiment
British Army 53165 Private Liverpool Regiment
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 157065 The Queen's Regiment
British Army 42672 Private Lincolnshire Regiment
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Born 1886
Died 1917
British Army 35966 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army GS/63016 Private Royal Fusiliers 13th Battalion
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Born 1889
Died 1918
British Army 39999 Driver Royal Field Artillery
British Army 39999 Bombardier Royal Field Artillery
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Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army M2/178480 Private Army Service Corps
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Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army 1858 Private Coldstream Guards
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Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 5/1953 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 1/5th Battalion
British Army 240292 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 1/5th Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1918
British Army 16988 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 58032 Private Worcestershire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1922
British Army 5/2016 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 240320 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1897
Died 1917
British Army G/6703 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1883
Died 1916
British Army 288 Serjeant London Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers 2nd/5th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 5/1481 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 202128 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army TF202128 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 5th Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1915
British Army 5/2532 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 48382 Private East Surrey Regiment
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Born 1894
Died 1926
British Army Second Lieutenant Suffolk Yeomanry
British Army Captain Suffolk Yeomanry attached Suffolk Regiment
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 69174 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps
British Army 115403 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army 115403 Private Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army SD/1894 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army SD/1894 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1897
Died 1915
British Army 2nd Lieutenant Irish Guards Reserve Bn.
British Army 2nd Lieutenant Irish Guards 2nd Bn.
British Army Lieutenant Irish Guards. 2nd Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1918
Royal Navy Lieutenant
Royal Navy Lieutenant HMS Narbrough
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