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The Kohima Epitaph

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Genevieve
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Army
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28 July 2005

The Kohima Epitaph is carved on the second division’s memorial at Kohima. But it’s been taken over now as the epitaph - we recite it every time we go to our meeting, and every time we have a service:

‘When you go home tell them of us, and say; for your tomorrow we gave our today’

Very emotional.

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