CORPORAL JAMES ANTHONY LINCEY
40TH BTTN AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY
28TH NOVEMBER 1917 AGE 21
BURIED: BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION, BELGIUM
James Lincey had been in Tasmania for three years when he returned to Europe as a soldier in 1916. Born in Menstone-in-Wharfdale, England, he emigrated with his parents in 1913. His father died two years later. His mother therefore chose his inscription, "For ever England". The quotation is taken from the third line of Rupert Brooke's famous poem, The Soldier:
If I should die, think only this of me;
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.