...some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England...Lateau Wood (Bois De Laleau) January 2004 the final resting place of Second Lieutenant Sydney Elphick Sanders 6th Bn. Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) along with 41 of his comrades who fell on 30th Nov 1917 and have no known grave.

photo: Lateau Wood from Pam Pam Farm looking to the east

Lateau Wood from Pam Pam Farm looking to the east.

photo:Le Quesnet to the left Bois Laleau to the right.

Looking North East from Pam Pam Farm with Le Quesnet to the left Bois Laleau to the right.

photo: Lateau Wood looking southwards along the N44 with Le Quesnet Farm on the right

Lateau Wood looking southwards along the N44 with Le Quesnet Farm on the right.



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. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Rupert Brooke 1914

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To The Other Officers who fell on 30th Nov 1917