LIEUTENANT COLONEL LAURENCE GODMAN
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
30TH SEPTEMBER 1917 AGE 37
BURIED: BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NORD, FRANCE
Laurence Godman's epitaph is his family motto taken from Lucretius' De Rerum Natura III.18, 'What seek we more than heaven'. Educated at Rugby School and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, Godman had seen service in South Africa and India before going to France with the Expeditionary Force in August 1914. He was killed by a shell whilst looking for observation posts in front of the trenches at Messines.