WHO DIES IF ENGLAND LIVE

SECOND LIEUTENANT PHILIP BRYDGES GUTTEREZ HENRIQUES

KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS

25TH JULY 1915 AGE 20

BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM


Sir Philip and Lady Henriques chose the last line of Rudyard Kipling's patriotic, 1914 poem, For All We Have and Are, for their son's headstone inscription:

No easy hope or lies
Shall bring us to our goal,
But iron sacrifice
Of body, will, and soul.
There is but one task for all -
One life for each to give.
What stands if freedom fall?
Who dies if England live.

They used the same quotation in a memorial window to their son in St Mark's Church, Normandy, Surrey. Lieutenant Philip Henriques died in a casualty clearing station at Lijssenthoek of wounds received in the Second Battle of Ypres.