HE DIED THE NOBLEST DEATH
A MAN MAY DIE
FIGHTING FOR GOD & RIGHT
& LIBERTY

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.