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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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Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army 47550 Private Royal Scots
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Born 1901
Died 1918
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Died 1918
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Born 1888
Died 1916
British Army SD/1157 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1884
Died 1915
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British Army L/8163 Private The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
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Born 1887
Died 1915
British Army G/1103 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1877
Died 1914
Royal Navy 8842 Private Royal Marine Light Infantry Chatham Division
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Born 1886
Died 1917
British Army SD/2107 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 2107 Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 12th Battalion
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Born 1888
Died 1918
British Army G/21713 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 9th Battalion
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British Army G/21713 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1881
Died 1916
British Army G/4146 Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army GS/7419 Private Royal West Kent Regiment
British Army Lance Corporal Royal West Kent 8th Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1916
British Army 10488 Private Shropshire Light Infantry
British Army Lance Corporal The King's Shropshire Light Infantry 5th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 1555 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1888
Died 1917
British Army G/34572 Private Middlesex Regiment 12th Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army Sergeant Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 5/2348 Lance Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 5/2348 Corporal Royal Sussex Regiment 5th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1919
British Army SD/3614 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
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Born 1895
Died 1921
British Army T4/059206 Driver Army Service Corps
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 79009 Private Northumberland Fusiliers
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Died 1914
British Army 6474 Private Northamptonshire Regiment
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