IN MEMORY OF
MY DEARLY LOVED ONLY CHILD
MARYBOROUGH, VIC. A.

LANCE CORPORAL HARLEY BESWICK CROSS

38TH BN AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

12TH OCTOBER 1917 AGE 20

BURIED: TYNE COT CEMETERY, BELGIUM


"My dearly loved only child." Note that Lance Corporal Cross's father uses the word 'my' not 'our'. This is because Frederick Harley Cross was a widower and now his only child was dead.