LAETUS SORTE MEA

LIEUTENANT RANULPH STEINTHAL DE SAUMAREZ-BROCK

ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY

24TH MAY 1917 AGE 22

BURIED: BRANDHOEK TOWN CEMETERY, BELGIUM


The Latin phrase translates as 'Happy with my lot'. It is not the family motto. Ranulph's sister, Joan, living at the family home in Cambridge Gardens, London, signed the form confirming her brother's inscription. The de Saumarez-Brocks were a Guernsey family and Ranuph had been educated at Elizabeth College.