OUR IDEAL SON
A GENTLE, TENDER, BROTHER
A STEADFAST FRIEND

PRIVATE HAROLD MARCUS SARGANT

43 BN AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

18TH APRIL 1918 AGE

BURIED: BONNAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE


According to Harold Sargant's father, who completed the form for the Roll of Honour of Australia, his son "volunteered to restore the line of communication in the big push under very heavy shell fire and his officer said he just completed it when a shell burst and killed him."
Sargant, whose qualities are beautifully described on his headstone, was a farmer before he enlisted in 1916. He embarked from Australia on 9 November that year and was "21 years all but 12 days" when killed in action on 4 April 1918.