Keeping Warm

It’s a bitterly cold day today, however the blustery chilly wind and frequent showers, fortunately didn’t start until the end of the Remembrance Day service in front of the town's War Memorial this morning, which M, B and I attended. The young lady in the photo was part of the Gresham School Combined Cadets and was clearly feeling the cold as she has tucked her hands up inside her sleeves.
It was a very moving service and before the playing of the Last Post and the two-minute silence, the names of all those on the Holt War Memorial were read out, it was particularly sad to hear the reading of some servicemen with the same surname who were probably all from the same family.
 
When you go home, tell them of us and say,
“For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.”
The Kohima Epitaph
 
The Kohima Epitaph is the epitaph carved on the Memorial of the 2nd British Division in the cemetery of Kohima (North-East India). The verse is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958), and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph written by Simonides to honour the Greek who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC.