SERVICES are taking place across the UK today to mark Anzac Day, which celebrates the military efforts of Australian and New Zealand servicemen at Gallipoli during World War I. On this day, the Ode of ...
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. To this day there is a plaque to commemorate the spot where in September 1914 Laurence Binyon wrote “For ...
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old," begins the Ode, which is recited at Anzac Day dawn services and engraved on war memorials and cenotaphs around the nation. The Ode, though, was ...