This is of course about those lost in the First World War. The line "we will remember them" comes from a poem by Laurence Binyon called 'For The Fallen'. The most famous verse is:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
I think the list of men's names - the village's cricket team is a neat, unmawkish way of showing the absolute devastation this war caused to the male population of villages across Britain.
This is of course about those lost in the First World War. The line "we will remember them" comes from a poem by Laurence Binyon called 'For The Fallen'. The most famous verse is:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
I think the list of men's names - the village's cricket team is a neat, unmawkish way of showing the absolute devastation this war caused to the male population of villages across Britain.