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Hailsham & District RBL

Exhortation and Kohima

 

Hailsham Memorial

 

The Exhortation

 
  The Exhortation is said at Remembrance events before the Last Post is played and the Two Minute Silence. It is also said at the beginning of every meeting of the Hailsham and District RBL Branch. The extract is from a poem written by Robert Laurence Binyon called "For the Fallen", composed in September 1914, just a few weeks after the outbreak of the First World War.  
 

 

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them."

Response: "We will remember them."

 

 
 

 

 
 

The Kohima

 
 

The Kohima Epitaph is engraved on the Memorial of the 2nd British Division in the cemetery of Kohima (North-East India). It is read out at the end of every meeting of the Hailsham and District RBL Branch. It reads:

 
 

'When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.'

 

 

The Last Post and Rouse

This recording has been produced for Remembrance Day services. It starts with the Last Post and then has two minutes of silence before the trumpeter begins the Rouse which brings the music to completion.

Click the link below.

The Last Post 2 Minutes Silence And Rouse Solo Trumpet 2021