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Poetic Inspiration
Related EpitaphsAnd we in faith And honour keep That peace For which they pa…
Captain John Frederick FarrarWe two parted In silence and tears Half broken hearted To se…
Private Harry Edward RiversAnd if I laugh At any mortal thing Tis that I may not weep
Private Alan YardleyOnce more on my adventure Brave and new
Captain George Alan Campbell Smith MCSon Oh Son
Private William StephenA young Canadian soldier-poet Who followed the gleam
Second Lieutenant Horace Edgar Kingsmill BrayPeace, thy olive wand extend And bid wild war His ravage end
Rifleman Robert HerkesThat their dust May rebuild a nation And their souls Relight…
Second Lieutenant George Helliwell Harding"And if God choose I shall but love thee better After death"
Private Stanley Garfield JenkinsHere he lies Where he longed to be The hunter Home from the…
Lieutenant Colonel Halford Claude Vaughan Harrison"Never the spirit was born The spirit shall cease To be neve…
Private Alexander Bayne McGregor GrahamYou were a man my son
Lance Corporal Geoffrey Damerel GidleyThere comes a mist And a weeping rain And life is never The …
Private James O'RorkeThe young, the beautiful The brave
Private Ralph HamiltonThe best is yet to be
Major Christian Gibson PhillipsThat twilight Of enchanted days The imperishable past His lo…
Corporal Alfred William WardHe died As firm as Sparta's King Because his soul Was great
Lance Corporal Peter PenningtonHave you forgotten yet? Look up, and swear by the Green of t…
Private Thomas Hoxworth BootePlay up, play up & play the game
Lieutenant Herbert HaworthNo life is lost That's nobly spent No hero's death is premat…
Lieutenant Wilfred Vivian Hubert Luther Bidstrup"Salt" of our English earth
Private Richard Douglas Salmon"Roger" The rose that climbed Our garden wall Has bloomed th…
Second Lieutenant Roger Leslie Stuart Wilkinson"The undone years The cruelty of war" Sadly missed by Mother…
Private Charles Albert Rollings"The hopeless tangle Of our age Thou too hast scanned it wel…
Lance Corporal John Oliver NevilleHas drunk his cup A round or two before And silently stole t…
Serjeant Frank CarsonYour memory hallowed In the land you loved South Africa
Second Lieutenant Errol Sidney PlowesYou, your knightly Virtue proved
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Spencer BowlesFor the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods
Captain Norman Kennedy SteuartHeedless and careless Still the world wags on And leaves me …
Lance Corporal Percy Hartland PowisTrailing clouds of glory Do we come
Sapper William Henry NixSwift as an arrow Light as a swallow So may we find you Boy,…
Private Ronald Alexander Llewelyn Gallen GallenShed one English tear O'er English dust
Lance Corporal John WoodLaughed and fought Staunch to the end Fell open-eyed and una…
Bombardier Thomas Eugene HunterGod's in his heaven All's right with the world
Lieutenant Roy Agnew Moon MCFear no more The heat o' the sun Nor the furious Winter's ra…
Major John HughstonGone In the unutterable splendour Of your immortal youth
Lance Corporal Thomas James Watters BlythFor whom all winds Are quiet as the sun All waters as the sh…
Gunner Alexander CampbellFor in the voice of birds The scent of flowers I'll speak to…
Lieutenant Walter AthertonBoy of My Heart, Goodnight Never goodbye Age 20 years
Private Wallace Robertson JohnstoneA glittering way He showed them Beyond the dim outpost
Serjeant Harold Noel Darling GuthrieWhat lamp Had destiny to guide A blind understanding Heaven …
Private Charles Ernest RennellO child, O stripling O dead boy Thou too shall live for ever
Lance Corporal Reginald Arthur Philip ReadLeaving footprints on The sands of time
Lieutenant Bertram Coleby RansomeThe sunshine comes The dewdrop slips Into the shining sea
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Arthur George Charles Gross Gross"My day was happy And perchance The coming night Is full of …
Signaller Archibald Graeme AndersonThey crowded all their youth Into an hour & for one fleeting…
Private Charles Edwin MorrisTruly ye are of the blood
Second Lieutenant George Edward Archibald Augustus FitzGeorge HamiltonThe image he left Makes worth look fairer And truth more bri…
Private Alexander George ChildCome it slow Or come it fast It is but death Which comes at …
Lance Corporal Harold SidebottomBlest by suns of home
Lieutenant Harold Victor HowarthWhen that which drew From out the boundless deep Turns again…
Gunner Edwin Charles HensonSo sad, so fresh The days that are no more
Serjeant Hugh Reid McGrogan"We see the sign Of a future grand As we gaze on a rising st…
Private Samuel Ernest CraneThe gunner smiled As he went out west
Gunner Harry Twyford TrumanThe ships came back With honoured brave But none came back W…
Private David Edward ArnoldOne more To make the strange beyond Seem fair
Gunner John Sampson Forsyth"They fought and died As we knew they would - As we knew th…
Private Eugene Alphonsus Edman"Tell them England hath taken me" Kipling
Second Lieutenant Vincent Tallemach AndersonWhen your brothers Stand to a tyrant's blow And England's ca…
Rifleman James ReidHe played up And played the game
Private William Springfield PlayleHe lies content With that high hour In which he lived and di…
Second Lieutenant John LodgeTrue to the Flag
Private Stanley John BowlandThou hast no sorrow In thy song No winter in thy year
Second Lieutenant Stuart Stirling Gemmell" ... dead ere his prime Young Lycidas And hath not left his…
Private Robert Henry KiddleGood night Though life and all Take flight Never good bye
Serjeant Thomas Oliver CrewHe heard the call And answered He fell open eyed And unafrai…
Private Stanley Arthur James LambertHis life inspired in me A joy that shall outlive Eternity
Lieutenant Richard Lauder Sale SaleBeyond the sea of death Love lives Yesterday, today And fore…
Rifleman Horace ToppsTheir mouths are stopt With dust
Private Horace HoltonAll this sad world needs Is just the art Of being kind Doll
Captain Herbert Henry Thompson"Shall life renew These bodies? Of a truth All death will he…
Lieutenant Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MCO wind If winter comes Can spring be far behind?
Captain Harry Dunlop MC"I was ever a fighter So one fight more The best and the las…
Lieutenant Arthur Rowland SkempWhatever is, is best
Lieutenant John Dobree BellThere is but one task For all For each one life to give
Private Llewellyn McnamaraAll our beauty And hope and joy We owe to lads like you
Private Robert T InglisSon of Col. G.C. Atkinson "is it well? It is well"
Major Owen Dayot Atkinson MCLo, one we loved
Lieutenant Charles Edward ReynoldsRemember the love of them Who came not home From the war
Second Lieutenant Malcolm Winser WakemanNo thought of glory To be won There was his duty to be done …
Private John O'NeillWith the vision splendid He shall smile back And never know …
Second Lieutenant Andrew Russell BennetNo king or saint Had tomb so proud As he whose flag Becomes …
Sapper James Joseph LeonardIn foreign soil she lays And in that rich earth A richer dus…
Sister Sophia HillingHe sleeps With the unreturning brave
Second Lieutenant Harold Edward PriceWe fall to rise Are baffled to fight better Sleep to wake
Captain William Boyd Jack MCHe sleeps The soul, from earth's control Released Sees heave…
Private James Edward AllenHis fate and fame Shall be an echo And a light unto eternity
Sergeant James GoreHonour has come back As a king to earth And paid his subject…
Rifleman Charles George CoxNot since her birth Has our earth seen Such worth loosed upo…
Lance Sergeant Alexander Lorimer RiddellI saw the powers of darkness Put to flight I saw the morning…
Lieutenant Bruce Garie ThomsonNor England did I know Till then What love I bore to thee
Private Bernard Manning BrowningA warmer heart Death never made so cold
Private John OliverTo you from failing hands We throw the torch Be yours to hol…
Sergeant Henry Leggo HammondThe brave Rest in a nation's love And never die
Private Robert Sydney GrayBorn to know not winter only spring
Second Lieutenant Sir John Bridger ShiffnerNever morning wore To evening But some heart did break
Private George CashWe are yours England, my own!
Second Lieutenant Thomas Edward LawrenceA Cameron In the shock of steel Dies like The offspring of L…
Private William White FraserMan's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands Mourn
Lieutenant Ernest Cecil SteeleSuch a sleep they sleep The men I loved R.I.P.
Second Lieutenant William Edward GillespieHe crossed the bar For his country In the glorious charge Of…
Corporal John FieldingNation with nation Land with land Unarmed shall live As comr…
Private Arthur Edmund Latchford"They never fail Who die in a great cause" Byron "My dear, m…
Lieutenant Harry William Francis PonterMore brave for this That he hath much to love
Lieutenant James McDonald MCBy the will of God Here the west meets the east
Lance Corporal Herbert CarpenterHe shall master & surprise The steed of death For he is stro…
Private John Percival Osmond MMMy task accomplished And the long day done
Private Roy Douglas HarveyState not "He nobly lived or otherwise; Failed or succeeded"…
Captain Charles Pooley MCShe called My country called me And I went
Captain William Hope WalkerWhere sing The morning stars together And all things are at …
Private Norman BoydThe dauntless heart That fear'd no human pride
Captain Leslie OldershawGive unto me ... The spirit of self-sacrifice
Private Edmund CullingfordIn that rich earth A richer dust contains
Sapper Stanley Rees EdeTo greet the sun Upon the upland lawn
Lieutenant Victor Joseph WoodcockIn that Great cloister's stillness He lives Whom we call dea…
Gunner Harry Sampson SampsonO England Let thy wealth be counted Not in gold, but souls
Gunner Ernest Robert Rounce"How many hopes Lie buried here" Our only son
Private Richard CoxWith flag unfurled The heights of death he trod Into the pea…
Gunner John Ernest SalterThou hast all seasons For thine own O death
Private Archibald SandilandsHe played the game
Private James CloustonHow could I stay
Driver Talbot Preston RobertsonAs the glory Of a setting star The light of his brave life …
Captain Laurence Minot, MCRemember what he was The bright, the brave The tender and th…
Private James Hollands RobertsonBritain be proud Of such a son Deathless the fame That he ha…
Sergeant Harold William MastonKindle thy hope Put all thy fears away Live day by day
Gunner Thomas Erskine KershawSpeed, fight on, fare ever There as here
Second Lieutenant Clement Percy JoscelyneIt was for visions That we fell
Captain George Hugh Freeland Bartholomew"He was a veray Parfit gentil knight"
Sapper Guy Martin Berry"Beloved and honoured Far as he was known" Wordsworth
Lieutenant Holroyd Birkett-BarkerA ruddy drop Of manly blood The surging sea outweighs
UnidentifiedOn fames eternal camping Ground Their silent tents are sprea…
Captain Clarence Smith Jeffries VCNot one soul Has vallen in vain Here was No useless sacrific…
Lieutenant Ivan Lancelot Stockhausen"None knew thee But to love thee Nor named thee but to prais…
Second Lieutenant Oswald Lucking StrongWe find in our dull road Their shining track In every nobler…
Second Lieutenant Lewis Hayes Whitfield"That, setting duty first He went at once As to a sacrament
Private Edward BlackburnLaugh, and the world laughs with you Weep And you weep alone
Private Arthur George Edward VassarOf Crewe The music of his life Is nowise stilled Our ears n…
Lieutenant Frank Blamphin TippingWhose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors Of time
Private Even Thomas Kennedy"The world shall end When I forget" Swinburne
Second Lieutenant Douglas Towry FarrierDeath opens unknown doors It is most grand to die
Lieutenant Derek Edward Lewis Venn BaumerThe pipers played The gathering of the clans
Private Archie Stuart ThomBut the thousandth man Will stand your friend With the whole…
Second Lieutenant Herbert C RosaCaptain of my soul
Private Francis James CarewTransplanted Human worth will bloom To profit otherwhere
Private Frederick MillerThere is no death Closer is he than breathing Nearer than ha…
Second Lieutenant Thomas Hanson AverillPeace hath higher tests Of manhood Than battle ever knew
Private Archibald Izzatt"I pray you shed no tear"
Captain Talbert Stevenson, MC & BarTo break but not to fail
Gunner Harry HandleyO true brave heart God bless thee where so 'er In God's grea…
Private Edward Douglas Percy FeatherstoneOne who never dreamed Though right were worsted Wrong would …
Lieutenant Frederick Charleston"Duty"
Brigadier General Walter LongThe evening brings all home
Private Wilson StansfieldBoyhood's Scarce conscious breath Cheerfully given Lest we f…
Serjeant Lowry LeesAfter one crowded hour Of glorious life He sleeps well
Private John Wilson KelsoHe is gone on the mountain He is lost to the forest
Captain Hugh Adam MunroI shall arrive What time What circuit first I ask not
Major James Miles LangstaffThe dawn is not distant Nor is the night starless Love is et…
Private Walter Stericker WilkinsonIn life and death A chainless soul With courage to endure Br…
Private Milton RayThe larks ye heard They sing of the cause Which made thee di…
Private Howard Otis IrishTo them that saved Our heritage And cast their own away
Captain Robert Sefton AdamsStraight of limb True of eye Steady and aglow
Second Lieutenant George Frederick Whitby HarrisonThe bravest Are the tenderest The loving Are the daring
Serjeant Douglas Alexander, MMNo voice Save an echo repeating He cometh not back again L. …
Lieutenant Henry Eric HammelIn action faithful And in honour clear
Second Lieutenant Norman Edwin RutherfordFrom scenes like these Old Scotia's grandeur springs Thy wil…
Private Thomas MarshallSong sinks into silence The story is told
Sapper Harold MilneOne who loved his fellow men
Captain Reginald ShermanForget me not dear land For which I fell
Captain Owen Robert Lloyd, MCGreen sod above Blow light, blow light Good night dear, good…
Private Sidney Roland JenkinsBreak, break, break On thy cold grey stone O sea
Second Lieutenant Joseph IrvineHappy Warrior
Private Harry Noel LeaStronger than steel Is the sword of the spirit
Corporal Tom Denton HepworthAnd how can man die better Than facing fearful odds
Lieutenant Carl Hansen"Algy" Nothing for tears
Second Lieutenant Alexander James DavidsonWhen my spirit enters To its rest My lips shall say "I too h…
Lieutenant Colonel William Herbert AndersonOne of "the choir Whose music is The gladness of the world
Private Donald Morton BuntingThe hills keep record Of your name Never can any shame Darke…
Sapper Godfrey Torbet MackayOnly the actions Of the just & brave Smell sweet And blossom…
Private P SmithBe content No honour of age Had been more excellent
Second Lieutenant Stewart Gordon RidleyHome is the sailor Home from the sea And the hunter Home fr…
Lance Corporal Peter CampbellThe blood of a hero Is the seed of freedom From father and m…
Private W DickinsonRemembering you We will be brave and strong
UnidentifiedHe is a presence To be felt and known In darkness and in lig…
Second Lieutenant John Roger WallaceThis corner Of a foreign field That is for ever England
Second Lieutenant William Roy DaveyBivouac
Private Kenneth Milne-MillsWe are the dead We lived, felt dawn And now we lie In Flande…
Private James WaltersNow God be thanked Who has match'd him With his hour
Second Lieutenant Denys Edward GreenhowMan is forever
Captain Charles Kenneth McKerrowNow heaven Is by the young invaded
Second Lieutenant James EkinThe reaper came that day And took the flower away
Lance Corporal William Ewart EatonIt is well with the lad Mother
Private Frank SaxbyThe love That makes undaunted The final sacrifice
Private William PeattieMusic, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory
Private George BelcherThey win or die Who wear The rose of Lancaster
Lieutenant Leonard Comer WallPass friend - All's well!
Lieutenant Stephen Reginald Parke Walter"He wears immortal honour & Is joined with those Who fought …
Captain Adie Wale"Crowned with the sunshine Of immortal youth"
Captain Ivan Provis Wentworth BennettOur bugles sang truce
Private James Duff CampbellFull lasting is the song Though he, the singer, passes
Lance Corporal Edward Holt HolmeR.I.P. His sleeping eyes Hold visions Of Australian skies
Second Lieutenant Jacques Montague D'AlpugetNothing but well and fair And what may quiet us In a death s…
Serjeant Leslie CoulsonForth from the conflict Unashamed he passed Victorious on hi…
Captain Thomas Charles Richmond Baker, DFC, MM and BarHe died for its colours And shed his heart's blood for the f…
Private Laurence Ralph StoneThis is the Happy Warrior, This is he
Captain Edward Stanley Russell, MCStaunch to the end Against odds uncounted
Lance Corporal William Tunnage AbbottHow can man die better Than facing fearful odds
Lance Corporal Edwin Hutchinson TaylorThe paths of glory Lead but to the grave
Corporal Percy Edgar IndOne moment stood he As the angels stand High in the immanenc…
Second Lieutenant Edmund Jasper Shallcross CaveOh for the touch Of a vanished hand And the sound of A voice…
Private Frank TurnerOne who never Turned his back But marched breast forward
Private Leonard Everard MayneOne short sleep past We wake eternally And death shall be no…
Second Lieutenant Allen Rhys GriffithsThese are deeds Which should not pass away Names that must n…
Private Stanley Edgar Stephen Ravell"A sorrow's crown Of sorrow is Remembering happy things" Ten…
Private James Alexander Lamerton"Love is all And death is nought" Browning
Captain Christopher William Brodrick BirdwoodAnd life Is all the sweeter That he lived
Captain Keith Joy BarrettIn short measures Life may perfect be
Lieutenant Douglas Oliphant Constable"Steel true and blade straight The great artificer Made my m…
Lance Corporal Guy Melville FarndenNo reveille And no morning gun Shall evermore waken him
Captain Andrew George ChristianOne clear call
Lieutenant Sidney Maurice ScottWhen duty whispers low "Thou must" The youth replies "I can"
Lance Corporal Alan Louis ShawHe nothing common did Or mean Upon that memorable scene
Second Lieutenant Ralph Ernest WhiteOh soldier saint Who put his breast Between the spears and m…
Private Maxwell GreenSay not goodnight But in some fairer clime Bid me good-morn
Lance Corporal Edward BodelAttired in sudden brightness Like a man inspired
Second Lieutenant Trice MartinGlad did he live And gladly died And he laid him down With a…
Captain Richard John ClarkeE'en as he trod That day to God So walked he from his birth …
Second Lieutenant Algernon Percy Clarke"Sail forth! Steer for The deep waters only! Reckless, O sou…
Lieutenant Colonel Athelstan Moore DSOLest we forget
Private Wilfred Edmund BellHere lies The noblest work of God
Private Harley Randolph SloggettA crowded hour Of glorious life Is worth an age Without a na…
Private Harry SteaneTo live in hearts We leave behind Is not to die
Private Raymond Everitt BaylissI could not love you Dear so well Loved I not honor more
Serjeant Harold Fuller Parsons"Thug thu barrachd Ann am beus"
Private Hugh MacInnesA gentleman - unafraid
Driver Lawrence Harold King LightHe has outsoared The shadow of our night
Second Lieutenant Harold JamesonEi aberth nid a heibio - A' I wyneb Annwyl nid a'n ango Mam
Gunner Evan EvansOh Arty, dear departed shade Where is thy place Of blissful …
Private Arthur BullockLet not ambition Mock their useful toil
Private John GrayMan's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands Mourn
Corporal George MorrisHe sleepeth with the brave
Lance Corporal Alan HillFor ever England
Corporal James Anthony LinceyWho dies if England live
Second Lieutenant Philip Brydges Gutterez HenriquesSee all tagged 'Poetic Inspiration'
Captain John Frederick FarrarWe two parted In silence and tears Half broken hearted To se…
Private Harry Edward RiversAnd if I laugh At any mortal thing Tis that I may not weep
Private Alan YardleyOnce more on my adventure Brave and new
Captain George Alan Campbell Smith MCSon Oh Son
Private William StephenA young Canadian soldier-poet Who followed the gleam
Second Lieutenant Horace Edgar Kingsmill BrayPeace, thy olive wand extend And bid wild war His ravage end
Rifleman Robert HerkesThat their dust May rebuild a nation And their souls Relight…
Second Lieutenant George Helliwell Harding"And if God choose I shall but love thee better After death"
Private Stanley Garfield JenkinsHere he lies Where he longed to be The hunter Home from the…
Lieutenant Colonel Halford Claude Vaughan Harrison"Never the spirit was born The spirit shall cease To be neve…
Private Alexander Bayne McGregor GrahamYou were a man my son
Lance Corporal Geoffrey Damerel GidleyThere comes a mist And a weeping rain And life is never The …
Private James O'RorkeThe young, the beautiful The brave
Private Ralph HamiltonThe best is yet to be
Major Christian Gibson PhillipsThat twilight Of enchanted days The imperishable past His lo…
Corporal Alfred William WardHe died As firm as Sparta's King Because his soul Was great
Lance Corporal Peter PenningtonHave you forgotten yet? Look up, and swear by the Green of t…
Private Thomas Hoxworth BootePlay up, play up & play the game
Lieutenant Herbert HaworthNo life is lost That's nobly spent No hero's death is premat…
Lieutenant Wilfred Vivian Hubert Luther Bidstrup"Salt" of our English earth
Private Richard Douglas Salmon"Roger" The rose that climbed Our garden wall Has bloomed th…
Second Lieutenant Roger Leslie Stuart Wilkinson"The undone years The cruelty of war" Sadly missed by Mother…
Private Charles Albert Rollings"The hopeless tangle Of our age Thou too hast scanned it wel…
Lance Corporal John Oliver NevilleHas drunk his cup A round or two before And silently stole t…
Serjeant Frank CarsonYour memory hallowed In the land you loved South Africa
Second Lieutenant Errol Sidney PlowesYou, your knightly Virtue proved
Second Lieutenant Wilfred Spencer BowlesFor the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods
Captain Norman Kennedy SteuartHeedless and careless Still the world wags on And leaves me …
Lance Corporal Percy Hartland PowisTrailing clouds of glory Do we come
Sapper William Henry NixSwift as an arrow Light as a swallow So may we find you Boy,…
Private Ronald Alexander Llewelyn Gallen GallenShed one English tear O'er English dust
Lance Corporal John WoodLaughed and fought Staunch to the end Fell open-eyed and una…
Bombardier Thomas Eugene HunterGod's in his heaven All's right with the world
Lieutenant Roy Agnew Moon MCFear no more The heat o' the sun Nor the furious Winter's ra…
Major John HughstonGone In the unutterable splendour Of your immortal youth
Lance Corporal Thomas James Watters BlythFor whom all winds Are quiet as the sun All waters as the sh…
Gunner Alexander CampbellFor in the voice of birds The scent of flowers I'll speak to…
Lieutenant Walter AthertonBoy of My Heart, Goodnight Never goodbye Age 20 years
Private Wallace Robertson JohnstoneA glittering way He showed them Beyond the dim outpost
Serjeant Harold Noel Darling GuthrieWhat lamp Had destiny to guide A blind understanding Heaven …
Private Charles Ernest RennellO child, O stripling O dead boy Thou too shall live for ever
Lance Corporal Reginald Arthur Philip ReadLeaving footprints on The sands of time
Lieutenant Bertram Coleby RansomeThe sunshine comes The dewdrop slips Into the shining sea
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Arthur George Charles Gross Gross"My day was happy And perchance The coming night Is full of …
Signaller Archibald Graeme AndersonThey crowded all their youth Into an hour & for one fleeting…
Private Charles Edwin MorrisTruly ye are of the blood
Second Lieutenant George Edward Archibald Augustus FitzGeorge HamiltonThe image he left Makes worth look fairer And truth more bri…
Private Alexander George ChildCome it slow Or come it fast It is but death Which comes at …
Lance Corporal Harold SidebottomBlest by suns of home
Lieutenant Harold Victor HowarthWhen that which drew From out the boundless deep Turns again…
Gunner Edwin Charles HensonSo sad, so fresh The days that are no more
Serjeant Hugh Reid McGrogan"We see the sign Of a future grand As we gaze on a rising st…
Private Samuel Ernest CraneThe gunner smiled As he went out west
Gunner Harry Twyford TrumanThe ships came back With honoured brave But none came back W…
Private David Edward ArnoldOne more To make the strange beyond Seem fair
Gunner John Sampson Forsyth"They fought and died As we knew they would - As we knew th…
Private Eugene Alphonsus Edman"Tell them England hath taken me" Kipling
Second Lieutenant Vincent Tallemach AndersonWhen your brothers Stand to a tyrant's blow And England's ca…
Rifleman James ReidHe played up And played the game
Private William Springfield PlayleHe lies content With that high hour In which he lived and di…
Second Lieutenant John LodgeTrue to the Flag
Private Stanley John BowlandThou hast no sorrow In thy song No winter in thy year
Second Lieutenant Stuart Stirling Gemmell" ... dead ere his prime Young Lycidas And hath not left his…
Private Robert Henry KiddleGood night Though life and all Take flight Never good bye
Serjeant Thomas Oliver CrewHe heard the call And answered He fell open eyed And unafrai…
Private Stanley Arthur James LambertHis life inspired in me A joy that shall outlive Eternity
Lieutenant Richard Lauder Sale SaleBeyond the sea of death Love lives Yesterday, today And fore…
Rifleman Horace ToppsTheir mouths are stopt With dust
Private Horace HoltonAll this sad world needs Is just the art Of being kind Doll
Captain Herbert Henry Thompson"Shall life renew These bodies? Of a truth All death will he…
Lieutenant Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MCO wind If winter comes Can spring be far behind?
Captain Harry Dunlop MC"I was ever a fighter So one fight more The best and the las…
Lieutenant Arthur Rowland SkempWhatever is, is best
Lieutenant John Dobree BellThere is but one task For all For each one life to give
Private Llewellyn McnamaraAll our beauty And hope and joy We owe to lads like you
Private Robert T InglisSon of Col. G.C. Atkinson "is it well? It is well"
Major Owen Dayot Atkinson MCLo, one we loved
Lieutenant Charles Edward ReynoldsRemember the love of them Who came not home From the war
Second Lieutenant Malcolm Winser WakemanNo thought of glory To be won There was his duty to be done …
Private John O'NeillWith the vision splendid He shall smile back And never know …
Second Lieutenant Andrew Russell BennetNo king or saint Had tomb so proud As he whose flag Becomes …
Sapper James Joseph LeonardIn foreign soil she lays And in that rich earth A richer dus…
Sister Sophia HillingHe sleeps With the unreturning brave
Second Lieutenant Harold Edward PriceWe fall to rise Are baffled to fight better Sleep to wake
Captain William Boyd Jack MCHe sleeps The soul, from earth's control Released Sees heave…
Private James Edward AllenHis fate and fame Shall be an echo And a light unto eternity
Sergeant James GoreHonour has come back As a king to earth And paid his subject…
Rifleman Charles George CoxNot since her birth Has our earth seen Such worth loosed upo…
Lance Sergeant Alexander Lorimer RiddellI saw the powers of darkness Put to flight I saw the morning…
Lieutenant Bruce Garie ThomsonNor England did I know Till then What love I bore to thee
Private Bernard Manning BrowningA warmer heart Death never made so cold
Private John OliverTo you from failing hands We throw the torch Be yours to hol…
Sergeant Henry Leggo HammondThe brave Rest in a nation's love And never die
Private Robert Sydney GrayBorn to know not winter only spring
Second Lieutenant Sir John Bridger ShiffnerNever morning wore To evening But some heart did break
Private George CashWe are yours England, my own!
Second Lieutenant Thomas Edward LawrenceA Cameron In the shock of steel Dies like The offspring of L…
Private William White FraserMan's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands Mourn
Lieutenant Ernest Cecil SteeleSuch a sleep they sleep The men I loved R.I.P.
Second Lieutenant William Edward GillespieHe crossed the bar For his country In the glorious charge Of…
Corporal John FieldingNation with nation Land with land Unarmed shall live As comr…
Private Arthur Edmund Latchford"They never fail Who die in a great cause" Byron "My dear, m…
Lieutenant Harry William Francis PonterMore brave for this That he hath much to love
Lieutenant James McDonald MCBy the will of God Here the west meets the east
Lance Corporal Herbert CarpenterHe shall master & surprise The steed of death For he is stro…
Private John Percival Osmond MMMy task accomplished And the long day done
Private Roy Douglas HarveyState not "He nobly lived or otherwise; Failed or succeeded"…
Captain Charles Pooley MCShe called My country called me And I went
Captain William Hope WalkerWhere sing The morning stars together And all things are at …
Private Norman BoydThe dauntless heart That fear'd no human pride
Captain Leslie OldershawGive unto me ... The spirit of self-sacrifice
Private Edmund CullingfordIn that rich earth A richer dust contains
Sapper Stanley Rees EdeTo greet the sun Upon the upland lawn
Lieutenant Victor Joseph WoodcockIn that Great cloister's stillness He lives Whom we call dea…
Gunner Harry Sampson SampsonO England Let thy wealth be counted Not in gold, but souls
Gunner Ernest Robert Rounce"How many hopes Lie buried here" Our only son
Private Richard CoxWith flag unfurled The heights of death he trod Into the pea…
Gunner John Ernest SalterThou hast all seasons For thine own O death
Private Archibald SandilandsHe played the game
Private James CloustonHow could I stay
Driver Talbot Preston RobertsonAs the glory Of a setting star The light of his brave life …
Captain Laurence Minot, MCRemember what he was The bright, the brave The tender and th…
Private James Hollands RobertsonBritain be proud Of such a son Deathless the fame That he ha…
Sergeant Harold William MastonKindle thy hope Put all thy fears away Live day by day
Gunner Thomas Erskine KershawSpeed, fight on, fare ever There as here
Second Lieutenant Clement Percy JoscelyneIt was for visions That we fell
Captain George Hugh Freeland Bartholomew"He was a veray Parfit gentil knight"
Sapper Guy Martin Berry"Beloved and honoured Far as he was known" Wordsworth
Lieutenant Holroyd Birkett-BarkerA ruddy drop Of manly blood The surging sea outweighs
UnidentifiedOn fames eternal camping Ground Their silent tents are sprea…
Captain Clarence Smith Jeffries VCNot one soul Has vallen in vain Here was No useless sacrific…
Lieutenant Ivan Lancelot Stockhausen"None knew thee But to love thee Nor named thee but to prais…
Second Lieutenant Oswald Lucking StrongWe find in our dull road Their shining track In every nobler…
Second Lieutenant Lewis Hayes Whitfield"That, setting duty first He went at once As to a sacrament
Private Edward BlackburnLaugh, and the world laughs with you Weep And you weep alone
Private Arthur George Edward VassarOf Crewe The music of his life Is nowise stilled Our ears n…
Lieutenant Frank Blamphin TippingWhose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors Of time
Private Even Thomas Kennedy"The world shall end When I forget" Swinburne
Second Lieutenant Douglas Towry FarrierDeath opens unknown doors It is most grand to die
Lieutenant Derek Edward Lewis Venn BaumerThe pipers played The gathering of the clans
Private Archie Stuart ThomBut the thousandth man Will stand your friend With the whole…
Second Lieutenant Herbert C RosaCaptain of my soul
Private Francis James CarewTransplanted Human worth will bloom To profit otherwhere
Private Frederick MillerThere is no death Closer is he than breathing Nearer than ha…
Second Lieutenant Thomas Hanson AverillPeace hath higher tests Of manhood Than battle ever knew
Private Archibald Izzatt"I pray you shed no tear"
Captain Talbert Stevenson, MC & BarTo break but not to fail
Gunner Harry HandleyO true brave heart God bless thee where so 'er In God's grea…
Private Edward Douglas Percy FeatherstoneOne who never dreamed Though right were worsted Wrong would …
Lieutenant Frederick Charleston"Duty"
Brigadier General Walter LongThe evening brings all home
Private Wilson StansfieldBoyhood's Scarce conscious breath Cheerfully given Lest we f…
Serjeant Lowry LeesAfter one crowded hour Of glorious life He sleeps well
Private John Wilson KelsoHe is gone on the mountain He is lost to the forest
Captain Hugh Adam MunroI shall arrive What time What circuit first I ask not
Major James Miles LangstaffThe dawn is not distant Nor is the night starless Love is et…
Private Walter Stericker WilkinsonIn life and death A chainless soul With courage to endure Br…
Private Milton RayThe larks ye heard They sing of the cause Which made thee di…
Private Howard Otis IrishTo them that saved Our heritage And cast their own away
Captain Robert Sefton AdamsStraight of limb True of eye Steady and aglow
Second Lieutenant George Frederick Whitby HarrisonThe bravest Are the tenderest The loving Are the daring
Serjeant Douglas Alexander, MMNo voice Save an echo repeating He cometh not back again L. …
Lieutenant Henry Eric HammelIn action faithful And in honour clear
Second Lieutenant Norman Edwin RutherfordFrom scenes like these Old Scotia's grandeur springs Thy wil…
Private Thomas MarshallSong sinks into silence The story is told
Sapper Harold MilneOne who loved his fellow men
Captain Reginald ShermanForget me not dear land For which I fell
Captain Owen Robert Lloyd, MCGreen sod above Blow light, blow light Good night dear, good…
Private Sidney Roland JenkinsBreak, break, break On thy cold grey stone O sea
Second Lieutenant Joseph IrvineHappy Warrior
Private Harry Noel LeaStronger than steel Is the sword of the spirit
Corporal Tom Denton HepworthAnd how can man die better Than facing fearful odds
Lieutenant Carl Hansen"Algy" Nothing for tears
Second Lieutenant Alexander James DavidsonWhen my spirit enters To its rest My lips shall say "I too h…
Lieutenant Colonel William Herbert AndersonOne of "the choir Whose music is The gladness of the world
Private Donald Morton BuntingThe hills keep record Of your name Never can any shame Darke…
Sapper Godfrey Torbet MackayOnly the actions Of the just & brave Smell sweet And blossom…
Private P SmithBe content No honour of age Had been more excellent
Second Lieutenant Stewart Gordon RidleyHome is the sailor Home from the sea And the hunter Home fr…
Lance Corporal Peter CampbellThe blood of a hero Is the seed of freedom From father and m…
Private W DickinsonRemembering you We will be brave and strong
UnidentifiedHe is a presence To be felt and known In darkness and in lig…
Second Lieutenant John Roger WallaceThis corner Of a foreign field That is for ever England
Second Lieutenant William Roy DaveyBivouac
Private Kenneth Milne-MillsWe are the dead We lived, felt dawn And now we lie In Flande…
Private James WaltersNow God be thanked Who has match'd him With his hour
Second Lieutenant Denys Edward GreenhowMan is forever
Captain Charles Kenneth McKerrowNow heaven Is by the young invaded
Second Lieutenant James EkinThe reaper came that day And took the flower away
Lance Corporal William Ewart EatonIt is well with the lad Mother
Private Frank SaxbyThe love That makes undaunted The final sacrifice
Private William PeattieMusic, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory
Private George BelcherThey win or die Who wear The rose of Lancaster
Lieutenant Leonard Comer WallPass friend - All's well!
Lieutenant Stephen Reginald Parke Walter"He wears immortal honour & Is joined with those Who fought …
Captain Adie Wale"Crowned with the sunshine Of immortal youth"
Captain Ivan Provis Wentworth BennettOur bugles sang truce
Private James Duff CampbellFull lasting is the song Though he, the singer, passes
Lance Corporal Edward Holt HolmeR.I.P. His sleeping eyes Hold visions Of Australian skies
Second Lieutenant Jacques Montague D'AlpugetNothing but well and fair And what may quiet us In a death s…
Serjeant Leslie CoulsonForth from the conflict Unashamed he passed Victorious on hi…
Captain Thomas Charles Richmond Baker, DFC, MM and BarHe died for its colours And shed his heart's blood for the f…
Private Laurence Ralph StoneThis is the Happy Warrior, This is he
Captain Edward Stanley Russell, MCStaunch to the end Against odds uncounted
Lance Corporal William Tunnage AbbottHow can man die better Than facing fearful odds
Lance Corporal Edwin Hutchinson TaylorThe paths of glory Lead but to the grave
Corporal Percy Edgar IndOne moment stood he As the angels stand High in the immanenc…
Second Lieutenant Edmund Jasper Shallcross CaveOh for the touch Of a vanished hand And the sound of A voice…
Private Frank TurnerOne who never Turned his back But marched breast forward
Private Leonard Everard MayneOne short sleep past We wake eternally And death shall be no…
Second Lieutenant Allen Rhys GriffithsThese are deeds Which should not pass away Names that must n…
Private Stanley Edgar Stephen Ravell"A sorrow's crown Of sorrow is Remembering happy things" Ten…
Private James Alexander Lamerton"Love is all And death is nought" Browning
Captain Christopher William Brodrick BirdwoodAnd life Is all the sweeter That he lived
Captain Keith Joy BarrettIn short measures Life may perfect be
Lieutenant Douglas Oliphant Constable"Steel true and blade straight The great artificer Made my m…
Lance Corporal Guy Melville FarndenNo reveille And no morning gun Shall evermore waken him
Captain Andrew George ChristianOne clear call
Lieutenant Sidney Maurice ScottWhen duty whispers low "Thou must" The youth replies "I can"
Lance Corporal Alan Louis ShawHe nothing common did Or mean Upon that memorable scene
Second Lieutenant Ralph Ernest WhiteOh soldier saint Who put his breast Between the spears and m…
Private Maxwell GreenSay not goodnight But in some fairer clime Bid me good-morn
Lance Corporal Edward BodelAttired in sudden brightness Like a man inspired
Second Lieutenant Trice MartinGlad did he live And gladly died And he laid him down With a…
Captain Richard John ClarkeE'en as he trod That day to God So walked he from his birth …
Second Lieutenant Algernon Percy Clarke"Sail forth! Steer for The deep waters only! Reckless, O sou…
Lieutenant Colonel Athelstan Moore DSOLest we forget
Private Wilfred Edmund BellHere lies The noblest work of God
Private Harley Randolph SloggettA crowded hour Of glorious life Is worth an age Without a na…
Private Harry SteaneTo live in hearts We leave behind Is not to die
Private Raymond Everitt BaylissI could not love you Dear so well Loved I not honor more
Serjeant Harold Fuller Parsons"Thug thu barrachd Ann am beus"
Private Hugh MacInnesA gentleman - unafraid
Driver Lawrence Harold King LightHe has outsoared The shadow of our night
Second Lieutenant Harold JamesonEi aberth nid a heibio - A' I wyneb Annwyl nid a'n ango Mam
Gunner Evan EvansOh Arty, dear departed shade Where is thy place Of blissful …
Private Arthur BullockLet not ambition Mock their useful toil
Private John GrayMan's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands Mourn
Corporal George MorrisHe sleepeth with the brave
Lance Corporal Alan HillFor ever England
Corporal James Anthony LinceyWho dies if England live
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