Transcript of the Eulogy read by Mr Donald Stewart FM, first cousin of EG Carthew:

For those who have gone before their time.

The Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon gloried in the freedom of the Australian bush. Yet surely these lines from his poem, "A Song to Autumn", some of which appear on these plaques - may resonate with a traveller passing by this place today. He wrote: "Girl! when the garlands of next year glow, You may gather again, my dear— But I go where the last year’s lost leaves go At the falling of the year."

And for what cause? Pericles in his Eulogy to the fallen Athenians two and a half thousand years ago provides an enduring answer, he wrote "Each has won a glorious grave - not that sepulchre of earth wherein they lie, but the living tomb of everlasting remembrance wherein their glory is enshrined. For the whole earth is the sepulchre of heroes. Monuments may rise and tablets be set up to them in their own land, but on far-off shores there is an abiding memorial that no pen or chisel has traced; it is graven not on stone or brass, but on the living hearts of humanity. Take these men for your example; like them, remember that prosperity can only be for the free, and that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have courage to defend it."

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