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- interjection Used in
Remembrance Day ceremonies as a caution against forgetting those who died in war. - interjection Used on
ANZAC Day memorials in remembrance of those who fell in theFirst World War
Etymologies
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From Rudyard Kipling′s 1897 poem Recessional.
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