Tell England, you that pass our monument,
Men who died serving Her rest here, content.

Several variants are engraved on all the obelisks which at Elandslaagte and on many another battlefield surmount the graves of officers and troopers in the Imperial Light Horse who fell during the Second Boer War (1899–1902); reported in G. F. Gibson, The Story of the Imperial Light Horse in the South African War (G.D. & Co. 1937) | Tell England, ye who pass this Monument, We, who died serving her, rest here content. | Another variant is reported in Ernest Raymond, Tell England (1922), ch. 12 | Tell England, ye who pass this monument, We died for her, and here we rest content. | Cf. the epitaph of Simonides for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae (480 BC)