11/11/2025
The quote “When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today” is attributed to the poet John Maxwell Edmonds. It is most famously associated with the Kohima Epitaph, a memorial for British and Indian soldiers who fought in the Battle of Kohima during World War II, though it was originally written by Edmonds in 1916.
Although now commonly called the 'Kohima epitaph' these words were not written to commemorate Kohima, but were composed during the First World War by Edmonds a Cambridge classicist turned wartime codebreaker.
The verse seems a fitting tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for future generations.