MY HEART ALWAYS SAD
MY SORROW GREAT
MY LOSS HARD TO BEAR

PRIVATE ALFRED ERNEST ELDER

AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

25TH JULY 1918 AGE 27

BURIED: BORRE BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE


Private Elder's next of kin was his sister, Mary, and it was she who chose his inscription since it appears that both their parents were dead. It is not a quotation but a straightforward description of the sister's grief.