HIS MEN WROTE ON ROUGH CROSS
"IN MEMORY OF
A VERY BRAVE BRITISH OFFICER"

SECOND LIEUTENANT LAMONT LIVINGSTONE PATERSON

LONDON REGIMENT, POST OFFICE RIFLES

1ST SEPTEMBER 1918 AGE 24

BURIED: GUARDS CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS, FRANCE


The 'rough cross' was Lieutenant Paterson's original grave marker, a wooden cross. His mother, touched by his men's inscription, had it repeated on her son's permanent headstone. Lamont Paterson was a Canadian born and bred. He served with an English regiment and to his men was "a very brave British officer".