MENS CONSCIA RECTI

CAPTAIN CHARLES CORBOULD WALKER

ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS

26TH AUGUST 1914 AGE 39

BURIED: LE CATEAU MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE


The words translate as 'a mind conscious of rectitude'. The full quote from Vergil's Aeniad 1.604, 'mens sibi conscia recti', translates as 'the mind in itself and for itself conscious of its own rightness', the implication being that in your own mind you know that you have done right.