The Kohima Epitaph :
The Kohima Epitaph is the epitaph carved on the Memorial of the 2nd British Division in the cemetery of Kohima (North-East India). It reads:
‘When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.’
The verse is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958), and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph written by Simonides to honour the Greeks who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC.
Read Rajindar Singh Dhatt’s recollections of liberating Kohima at https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/stories/rajindar’s-story
Rajindar today
South East Methodist Refugee and Interfaith Work 