PRIVATE FRANK HITCHIN
MACHINE GUN CORPS
22ND SEPTEMBER 1916 AGE 18
BURIED: GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE, FRANCE
This epitaph comes very close to suggesting that the dead might have died in vain. However, even though the War Graves Commission had given itself the right to censor inscriptions, it let this one through. To see what inscriptions they did censor read His Loving Parents Curse the Hun, His Loving Parents Curse the Hun.