SOLDIER SLEEP THY WARFARE'S
O'ER
DREAM OF FIGHTING DAYS NO
MORE

RIFLEMAN ARTHUR KNIGHT BARRETT BARRETT

LONDON REGIMENT

21ST FEBRUARY 1917 AGE 38

BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM


Arthur Cochran's inscription comes from the end of verse one of a three-verse song,
Soldier, Rest! Thy Warfare O'er, in Sir Walter Scott's long poem, The Lady of the Lake.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,
Dream of fighting fields no more;
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.

Rifleman Cochran served with the London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles) and died of wounds in a Casualty Clearing Station in Lijssenthoek on 21 February 1917. The youngest of six children, his widowed mother chose his inscription.