As a young, penniless World War One widow, Amelia Young just couldn’t afford the extra 3½d a letter for the epitaph on her husband’s gravestone.
The War Graves Commission said if she specifically requested anything different she would have to pay for it.
Grief-stricken Amelia simply wanted the poignant phrase “R.I.P” carved on Sergeant Joseph Young’s memorial on the Somme.
