LIEUTENANT ARTHUR STANLEY CAREY
MIDDLESEX REGIEMENT
15TH SEPTEMBER 1916 AGE 25
BURIED: COMBLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE
The lines come from 'To You Who Have Lost' by John Oxenham from his popular book of poems, 'All's Well', published in 1915. The lines were regularly used both as a headstone inscription and, in a longer quotation, as a dedication on war memorials:
He died as few men get the chance to die
Fighting to save a world's morality.
He died the noblest death a man may die,
Fighting for God, and Right, and Liberty; -
And such a death is Immortality.