When two of his sons, Ralph and Wilf, were killed in France, Sardius paid to have a stained glass window installed in their memory in Somers Park Methodist Church in Malvern (see pic.) When I was clearing my late mum’s house, I came across some papers from Sardius, one of which was a poem he wrote in 1948 called ‘A Prayer for Peace.’ Reading it, you realise it could have been written yesterday for today’s world. It seemed so applicable to today’s world that I needed to have a go at setting it to music.