DRIVER LAWRENCE HAROLD KING LIGHT
ROYAL ENGINEERS
29TH OCTOBER 1918 AGE 33
BURIED: ROISSEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE
This inscription is a quotation from 'Dedication', one of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads. The full line reads, "And they rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid". 'They' are those who have died, and 'He' is God, visiting the dead. And the sort of men the poet is talking about are those who:
"Borne on the breath that men call Death, my brother's spirit came.
He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of Earth
E'en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth,
In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth."
An excellent website dedicated to the history of the Royal Engineers lists Driver Light as having died, not died of wounds, on 29 October. It is my guess that he will have died from influenza.