SECOND LIEUTENANT ARCHER BENJAMIN LAXTON
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
21ST JULY 1917 AGE 19
BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Both the tone of the words and the quotation marks make me think that this is an extract from a letter of condolence to his mother from Lieutenant Laxton's senior officer. The fact that she quoted from it for her son's headstone inscription indicates that she derived the intended comfort from it. Her son, after all, was only 19. He died in a Casualty Clearing Station at Lijssenthoek "of gunshot wounds head, right shoulder and right thigh".