IF LOVE COULD HAVE SAVED HIM
HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN KILLED

LIEUTENANT CHALONER FRANCIS TREVOR CHUTE

ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS

27TH AUGUST 1914 AGE 29

BURIED: ETREUX BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE


Lieutenant Chute's headstone was erected seven years after his death by which time his wife had remarried. Nevertheless she chose this inscription. It's a popular piece of memorial verse, which in its more usual form reads, 'If love could have saved him he would not have died'.