Plaque remembers war poem

Laurence Binyon composed the poem on a Cornish cliff top

A plaque bearing the words of Britain's most famous war poem has been unveiled at the place in Cornwall where it was composed.

Pentire Cliffs at Polzeath, near Padstow, was the location where Laurence Binyon wrote For the Fallen in 1914.

The fourth stanza of the moving poem is recited every year on Remembrance Sunday.

Edmund Gray, grandson of the late poet, was among more than 100 people who gathered on the cliffs for the unveiling of a commemorative granite plaque.

Mr Gray said he was not surprised the landscape had moved his grandfather to compose the poem.

The fourth stanza is recited every Remembrance Sunday

"It is extremely beautiful here. I can see how he would have been inspired."

For the Fallen was first published by The Times newspaper just after the retreat from Mons and the victory of the Marne in the First World War.

Binyon was born in 1869, the son of a clergyman.

He was too old to enlist to fight in the war because he was aged 45, but he went to the Western Front in 1916 to work for the Red Cross as a medical orderly.