CAPTAIN THOMAS HERBERT RICHMOND
KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
1ST NOVEMBER 1914 AGE 31
BURIED: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, FRANCE
Battalion War Diary 28/29 October 1914: "Still in trenches. Heavy shell firing and heavy casualties. Capt. Richmond killed". The Diary goes on to record that some of the shells were the result of the French artillery firing short. Despite the diary entry, Captain Richmond hadn't been killed but he had been mortally wounded. He died three days later, on 1 November, in a base hospital in Boulogne
Thomas Herbert's father employs high diction for his son's inscription. It's not possible to tell whether the 'heroes of the past' that he refers to were chivalric knights or Greek heroes - but does it matter, we get the gist?