CAPTAIN HARRY VIVIAN BYATT BYATT
ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
14TH MARCH 1915 AGE 32
BURIED: ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE
Captain Byatt's epitaph summarises his life history, only omitting his years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, which he joined in 1909. He was killed, shot through the chest by a rifle bullet, whilst dressing a wounded man's head injury. Although he was taken to the Field Ambulance at Estaires he died soon afterwards.
'Ad sum', is the Latin for I am present, or I am here. Is it a significant motto, or perhaps the quotation marks imply that the words come from the dead man, 'I am here ', death is not the end.