They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old;

And age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

4^th Aug 1914                At the age of 45 years, Laurence Binyon was too old to enlist

23^rd Aug/9^th Sept ‘14   Battle of Mons and retreat to the Marne by the BEF.

Mid Sept 1914             Binyon wrote the poem “For the Fallen”

21^st Sept 1914              Poem was published in “The Times” newspaper

• Binyon went to the Western Front as a Red Cross medical orderly.

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The Royal British Legion has adopted “The Exhortation for the Fallen” for all their Remembrance Parades.

PHOTOGRAPH OF BINYON