FOR KING AND COUNTRY
THUS HE FELL
A TYRANT'S ARROGANCE TO QUELL

PRIVATE HARRISON RAYMOND ALLEN

CANADIAN INFANTRY

2ND DECEMBER 1916 AGE 25

BURIED: VILLERS STATION CEMETERY, VILLERS-AU-BOIS, FRANCE


The arrogant tyrant would have been the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, who was demonised by the British public, probably unjustifiably because he was nowhere near as powerful or influential as they thought he was.
I find this an interesting inscription. The War Graves Commission was quite strict about how insulting it allowed you to be about the former enemy and it censored inscriptions it thought might be offensive. Obviously it was OK to be insulting about the Kaiser, now in exile at Doorn in Holland, but you had to be careful, for example, how you described the German people.