Peter HOBSON

These headstones were works of art in their own right. The amount of work and effort it must have taken the sculptor to produce a memorial for a simple private soldier must have been considerable. Funerary imagery is well preserved at Pieta Military Cemetery as shown here. The sphinx for Egypt, the Royal Tiger for India of the Gordon Hldrs and the two inverted torches on the side of a classical temple are well carved. As an extra touch the artist portrayed on the plinth a fine relief echoing the inscription of how the deceased met his end. (Note also the decorated flora cross on the adjacent memorial.)