SECOND LIEUTENANT ALFRED JOHN HUNT
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
28TH NOVEMBER 1914 AGE 23
BURIED: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, FRANCE
Alfred Hunt served with the Royal Field Artillery whose regimental motto - Quo fas et gloria ducunt - translates as, where right and glory lead. Mrs Bessie Hunt, who chose this inscription, changed the word 'right' to 'duty'. Her son had seen a meteoric change in his military status since the beginning of the war having been promoted from corporal to sergeant and then commissioned as a second lieutenant all in a matter of weeks.
Alfred Hunt had been at the front since August 1914 as a letter to his mother, written on 27 October makes clear. He was wounded in the head by shrapnel on 25 November and died in hospital three days later having never regained consciousness.
On 18 July 1915, his younger brother, Frank, serving with the 13th Hussars, was killed in action aged 18. His inscription reads:
To live in hearts
We leave behind
Is not to die