<P> "For the Fallen" was specifically composed in honour of the casualties of the British Expeditionary Force, which by then already suffered severely at the Battle of Mons and the Battle of the Marne in the opening phase of the war on the Western Front . Over time, the third and fourth stanzas of the poem (usually nowadays just the fourth) have been claimed as a tribute to all casualties of war, regardless of state, and it is this selection of For the Fallen to which the term "Ode of Remembrance" usually refers . </P> <P> Laurence Binyon wrote "For the Fallen", which has seven stanzas, while sitting on the cliffs between Pentire Point and The Rumps in north Cornwall, UK . A stone plaque was erected at the spot in 2001 to commemorate the fact . The plaque bears the inscription: </P> <Dl> <Dd> For the Fallen </Dd> <Dd> Composed on these cliffs 1914 </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> For the Fallen </Dd>

Who wrote the poem we will remember them