To them that saved our heritage. The rest of the short story features further description of the pilgrimage, including a specific incident inspired by Kipling's own experience on the pilgrimage. Paperback, ISBN 9780344925207. The King’s Pilgrimage and event in Salisbury 5 November. The French guard of honour lowered their standards, and buglers of the Coldstream Guards and Grenadier Guards sounded the Last Post, bringing the pilgrimage to its end. The pilgrimage started on 11 May in Belgium, after a State Visit with the Belgian King, following which the King and his companions travelled by Royal Train through Belgium and France, using cars to tour the cemeteries from the towns where the train stopped. The party inspected cemeteries and memorials, some still under construction, and met local representatives, army generals, war graves officials, memorial and headstone carvers and cemetery gardeners. [8], The final day of the pilgrimage, 13 May, started at Etaples Military Cemetery, where the King, at his request, met representatives of the Imperial Dominions: P. C. Larkin (High Commissioner for Canada), Sir James Allen (High Commissioner for New Zealand), Sir Edgar Bowring (High Commissioner for Newfoundland), and representatives of Australia and South Africa (these two High Commissioners being absent to attend the Genoa Conference). [4][12] In the short story, this episode with the general and his overcoat is stated to have taken place towards the end of the pilgrimage at an Indian cemetery,[12][13] though accounts of Kipling's movements during the pilgrimage ascribe the incident that inspired the short story to a few days earlier on 11 May, a "bitterly cold" day when Kipling had been waiting for the King and Haig near Ypres. [8], Crossing to France, the Royal Party stopped for the night at Vimy. And where he saw his dead laid in their multitudes, there he drew rein; there he saluted; there he laid flowers upon great stones after the custom of his people [...] and the old women and the little staring children of Frangistan pressed him close, as he halted among the bricks and the ashes and the broken wood of the towns which had been killed in the War. Visits were made to graves of soldiers from all the Imperial Dominions, as well as India. The King's Pilgrimage concerns King George V's 'secret' trip to the battlefields of northern Europe to visit the war graves of the fallen. [2] A statement in the book declared that profits from the sale of the book would, at the behest of the King, be donated to the organisations arranging for bereaved relatives to visit the cemeteries and memorials. The first publication of the poem in the UK was in The Times of 15 May 1922, while the poem also appeared in the USA in the New York World. The King's Pilgrimage: An Account of King George V's Visit to the War Graves in Belgium and France is a reproduction of a volume first printed in 1922. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share . This place was not yet the site of the Vimy Memorial that would later be built there, but recalling the battle fought here, the King sent a telegram to Lord Byng, at that time the Governor-General of Canada, and during the war the commander of the Canadian forces that fought at Vimy. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de réduction . Although still recovering from an illness, the general had removed his overcoat and was waiting in his uniform in cold weather. Social. The King's Pilgrimage. Then he went over. And the first land he found, it was shoal and banky ground — Where the broader seas Kipling, a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, was its literary advisor and wrote many of the inscriptions and other written material produced for the Commission. In the story, as presented in 'The Debt', the King travels to one of the war cemeteries where a British general is waiting to greet him. But the man-high thistle had been master of it all, And the next land he found, it was bare and hilly ground -. The poem may refer to a specific event, but it reflects the recurring theme in Kipling's verse of the need to honor soldiers. The King's Pilgrimage: An Account of King George V's Visit to the War Graves in Belgium and France is a reproduction of a volume first printed in 1922. The King's Pilgrimage is a poem and book about the journey made by King George V in May 1922 to visit the World War I cemeteries and memorials being constructed at the time in France and Belgium by the Imperial War Graves Commission. Our King went forth on pilgrimage. And cast their own away. The King's Pilgrimage by Rudyard Kipling (1922) Our King went forth on pilgrimage His prayers and vows to pay To them that saved our heritage And cast their own away. After journeying back towards the French coast, the night of 12 May was spent at Etaples at the mouth of the River Canche. And this is just, for side by side with the descendants of his incomparable armies, they defended his land in defending their own. [1] This journey was part of the wider pilgrimage movement that saw tens of thousands of bereaved relatives from the United Kingdom and the Empire visit the battlefields of the Great War in the years that followed the Armistice. The King's Pilgrimage. And there was little show of pride, King George V's Visit to War Cemeteries in France. [12] Among the stories told is one related by the convict, a tribesman and former soldier, as told to him by his Colonel. 1922. His prayers and vows to pay. During the journey, memorial silences were held and wreaths laid. And there was little show of pride, Or prows of belted steel, For the clean-swept oceans every side Lay free to every keel. [5] The text of the poem includes references to Nieuport (a coastal port down-river from Ypres), and "four Red Rivers", said to be the River Somme, the River Marne, the River Oise and the River Yser, which all flow through the World War I battlefields. On that evening, the King was greeted by the Bishop of Amiens at Picquigny. The poem, ‘The King’s Pilgrimage’, by Rudyard Kipling, is about a tour, officially called a Pilgrimage, undertaken by King George V in May, 1922. 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