Reference WMO/154577
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- Timber Timber (any)
- First World War (1914-1918)
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Framed roll of honour placed within a wooden frame. Handwritten inscription with additional inscription carved onto the bottom part of the frame. Cross with a rifle and a cap at the foot it is depicted at the top centre of the roll of honour. Above it is a crown.
BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH AND I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. / 2ND LIEUT. H. C. ORGAN / OCTOBER 9TH 1917. / 'PASSED FROM EARTH'S DISCORDS TO GOD'S HARMONIOUS REST' / REST ETERNAL GRANT HIM LORD AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON HIM. / REQUIESCANT IN PACE. / HIS COMMANDING OFFICER AND BROTHER OFFICERS WROTE TO HIS WIFE AS FOLLOWS- / 'YOUR HUSBAND WAS KILLED LEADING HIS MEN IN THE SAME GALLANT MANNER / THAT HE HAS ALWAYS DISPLAYED IN ACTION SINCE JOINING THIS BATTALION. ORGAN WAS ONE / OF MY SUBULTERNS WHILE I COMMANDED 33 COY SO I KNEW HIM WELL. HE WAS A / EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD OFFICER AND ONE OF THE KEENEST MEN I KNEW, BUT THE GREATEST PRAISE / HE CAN RECEIVED IS THAT HE WAS VERY POPULAR WITH HIS PLATOON, AND THOSE OF THEM WHO / HAVE COME BACK ARE DEEPLY GRIEVED BY HIS LOSS.' / SIGNED, J. D. NEWETH MAJOR / COMMANDING 4TH GLOUCESTERS / 'I SHOULD LIKE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO YOUR HUSBAND'S GREAT BRAVERY AND KEEN SENSE / OF DUTY. / THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT HIS DISPLAY OF COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP, THE / MANAGEMENT OF HIS MEN AND THE EXAMPLE HE SET MADE HIM CONSPICUOUS AND THAT HIS / HIS DEATH WAS INDEED THE GREAT SACRIFICE.' / SIGNED W. E. FISHER CAPTAIN/ COMMANDING 1ST COY. / 'YOUR HUSBAND HAS FALLEN AS I AM SURE HE PREFERRED TO FALL, WHILST GIVING AN/ ORDER TO HIS SERGEANT AND WHEN LEADING HIS MEN. HE WAS A FINE SOLDIER AND PERSONALLY / I THINK HE FOUND HIS VOCATION IN LIFE WHEN HE JOINED THE ARMY. HE AS MUCH VALUED / IN THE BATTALION AS IN '33' COY, FOR BESIDES BEING A REALLY GOOD SOLDIER, HE WAS SO WONDER- / FULLY KEEN HIMSELF THAT HE IMBUED OTHERS WITH HIS OWN KEENESS. I THINK HE WAS ONE OF / THE BRAVEST MEN I HAVE MET OUT HERE.......
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