HERE LIES GRIT

PRIVATE ALFRED HARDING

ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT

28TH JUNE 1917 AGE 28

BURIED: BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE


Alfred Harding was a general labourer from Sussex. His brother Edgar, three years younger than him, chose his inscription. Grit, it's an unsophisticated word but we know what it means: courage, resolve, strength of character.