O SACRED HEART OF JESUS
HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL
RIP

CORPORAL JAMES SADDINGTON MM

40TH BTTN AUSTRALIAN RIFLES

21ST FEBRUARY 1918 AGE 24

BURIED: BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION, BELGIUM


James Saddington was a Roman Catholic and it was his mother who chose a classic Roman Catholic text for his inscription. The manner of his death, killed in action, would have deprived him of the last rites so the text was therefore a plea to Jesus to secure his path through purgatory.