RIGHT DEAR
IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD
IS THE DEATH OF HIS SAINTS

THE REVEREND CHARLES IVO SINCLAIR HOOD

ARMY CHAPLAINS' DEPARTMENT

15TH APRIL 1918 AGE 31

BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM


The Reverend Charles Hood died of wounds in the Casualty Clearing Station at Lijjsenthoek exactly one month before his elder brother died at Ebblinghem (see previous epitaph). A third brother, Lieutenant Commander Martin Arthur Frankland Hood RN, died on 14 May 1919 aged 31. The fourth brother, Alban John Frankland Hood, a major in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, who had been gassed on the Somme, died in 1927. All four brothers are commemorated on the war memorial in Nettleham Church despite the fact that Alban, who died after 31 August 1921, died too late to qualify for commemoration by the War Graves Commission.
Charles Hood's inscription is taken from Psalm 116 v. 15 and implies that God takes a particular interest in receiving his saints into heaven.