A BELOVED SON
WORTHY OF A BETTER FATE

PRIVATE OSBORNE DYE

ROYAL MARINES LIGHT INFANTRY "PLYMOUTH"

6TH JUNE 1915 AGE 22

BURIED: REDOUBT CEMETERY, GALLIPOLI, TURKEY


Osborne Dye was one of three brothers killed in the war. The surviving brother, William, appears to have decided his other brothers' inscriptions (see previous two inscriptions) but their mother signed the form for this one. Her disillusion and bitterness are unmistakeable. All three brothers are described as 'beloved', which is the only similarity between the three inscriptions.