Epitaph to a Dog for shame. Ye, who behold perchance this simple urn, Pass on – it honours none you wish to mourn. To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise; I never knew but one -- and here he lies. </poem> Epitaph to a Dog "Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies. When Boatswain contracted the disease, Byron reportedly nursed him without any fear of becoming
Operation Boatswain seen, by the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv.However, not until January 2015 did Archivist of AJEX and historian, Martin Sugarman, succeed after a long campaign, in persuading the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in formally commemorating the 23 Palmach men on their web site and also the inscribing of all their names on the Memorial to the Missing at Brookwood, Surrey. In this he was assisted by Col Neri Areli of the IDF Missing in Action Commission. Operation Boatswain Operation Boatswain was the first of the operational missions carried out by the Palmach as part of the cooperation between the Jewish