CAPTAIN THOMAS RIVERSDALE COLYER-FERGUSSON VC
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT
31ST JULY 1917 AGE 21
BURIED: MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY, YPRES, BELGIUM
Thomas Colyer-Fergusson quotes from two sources in his son's inscription. The first is the Old Testament, 2 Samuel: 33:
And the King was much moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, thus he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son".
The second quotation comes from the citation for his son's Victoria Cross. Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson won the VC for his capture of two enemy machine guns in an attack where his conduct throughout "forms an amazing record of dash, gallantry and skill, for which no reward can be too great, having regard to the importance of the position won".