CORPORAL BENJAMIN ANDERSON
SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
28TH APRIL 1915 AGE 35
BURIED: SEAFORTH CEMETERY, CHEDDAR VILLA, WEST FLANDERS, BELGIUM
This is a remarkably plain inscription - "He was ours & we'll remember". Corporal Anderson's wife, Jeanie, chose it and it's almost as if she's saying, we're not going to share him or our feelings with anyone else thank you. It's interesting how she refers to herself as "his widow" and not his wife as other women prefer to. Again she has not made any attempt to soften the situation.
Benjamin Anderson, a painter with Harvey Bros in Edinburgh, was a serving soldier during the Boer War and for some years afterwards. He was called up as a reservist in August 1914 and was killed near Ypres on 25 April 1915 leaving not only a widow but a family of six.