….At the edge of a group shot a child in a woollen hat stares into the camera.
She looks troubled, unsure, as if she’s biting her lip. The soldiers are laughing, with the central figure placed on a wooden cart who’s pretending to drink beer.
Due to the length of the exposure other figures appear ghostly, blurred.
‘He whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those who at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after see to it that his name be not forgotten.