'In Loving Memory of a Dear Boy DANGER UNSAFE KEEP AWAY Loved, & Never Forgotten - Mother' A memorial in Ely Cemetery, photographed in the winter of 2009. 'Futility', by Wilfred Owen, who died #OTD 4 November 1918: 'Move him into the sun: Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds: Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?' I removed the plastic warning tape, and underneath found the full inscription: 'In loving memory of a Dear Boy Charles Henry Newman Killed in France September 12 1917 aged 28 Years. Dearly Loved & Never Forgotten - Mother' Charles Newman was a Private in the 2/4th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. He was the son of Annie Fisher, formerly Annie Newman, of 48 Fore Hill Ely, and the late Joseph Newman. Charles was killed during the Third Battle of Ypres near the small town of Passchendaele. He's buried in the cemetery at Mendinghem, north-west of Ypres. He's remembered on the City of Ely war memorial, and also remembered here in the Ely City Cemetery: loved, and never forgotten. #Remembrance #MemorialsMonday #MonumentsMonday