Inscription on the grave of 2nd Lt William A Stanhope Forbes in the CWGC Guillemont Road Cemetery, Somme, Picardy, France.
2nd Lieut William Alexander Stanhope-Forbes killed with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 3rd Sept 1916 aged 23 son of the painter Stanhope Alexander Forbes , a Royal Academician and one of the founders of the Newlyn 'school of art'. His father chose a fine inscription for his headstone; “He saw beyond the filth of battle and thought death a fair price to pay to belong to the company of these fellows.” The cemetery was begun by fighting units (mainly of the Guards Division) and field ambulances after the Battle of Guillemont, and was closed in March 1917, which it contained 121 burials. It was greatly increased after the Armistice when graves (almost all of July-September 1916) were brought in from the battlefields immediately surrounding the village. Guillemont Road Cemetery now contains 2,263 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,523 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to eight casualties known or believed to be buried among them.
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Location: Somme, Picardy, France
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
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