This is what we meant to put on the tombstone:
"Here lies
Bill Simpkins
Who died fighting for Queen
and Country.
* * * * *
"A faithful son,
A son so dear,
A soldier brave
Lies buried here."
Then we remembered that poor, brave Bill was really buried far away in the Southern hemisphere, if at all.
So we altered it to—
"A soldier brave
We weep for here."
Then we looked out a nice flagstone in the stable-yard, and we got a cold-chisel out of the dentist's tool-box, and began.