Fydell Edmund Garrett

Fydell Edmund Garrett (20 July 1865 – 10 May 1907), also known as Edmund Garrett, was a British publicist, journalist and poet. He was returned as a Member of the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope in 1898 for Victoria East constituency.

Quotes

• Tell England, you that pass our monument,
  Men who died serving Her rest here, content.
  • Martial epitaph, in the African World Annual (8 December 1905); reported in E. T. Cook, Edmund Garrett: A Memoir (London: Edward Arnold, 1909), p. 269
  • Several variants are engraved on all the obelisks which at Elandslaagte and on many another battlefield surmount the graves of officers and troopers in the Imperial Light Horse who fell during the Second Boer War (1899–1902); reported in G. F. Gibson, The Story of the Imperial Light Horse in the South African War (G.D. & Co. 1937):

    Tell England, ye who pass this Monument,
    We, who died serving her, rest here content.

  • Another variant is reported in Ernest Raymond, Tell England (1922), ch. 12:

    Tell England, ye who pass this monument,
    We died for her, and here we rest content.

  • Cf. the epitaph of Simonides for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae (480 BC)

See also

• John Maxwell Edmonds

External links

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Fydell Edmund Garrett

• Caroline Jebb (ed.) The Life and Letter of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (Cambridge UP, 1907), p. 423