HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
TO THINK OF IT
FILLS OUR HEARTS WITH TEARS

PRIVATE SAMUEL HORROCKS

KING'S OWN ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT

17TH JUNE 1917 AGE 0

BURIED: VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM


A beautifully tender and unsophisticated inscription. It appears that Samuel Horrock's wife and their two sons lived with his parents. She chose the inscription but from the use of the word 'our' acknowledges the rest of the family's grief with her own.