"When you go home, tell them of us, and say ‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day.’"
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See also: Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
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John Maxwell Edmonds
(21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.
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