Riddles, R.F.C.[1]

(1916)

He was a boy of April beauty; one Who had not tried the world; who, while the sun Flamed yet upon the eastern sky, was done.

Time would have brought him in her patient ways-- So his young beauty spoke--to prosperous days, To fulness of authority and praise.

He would not wait so long. A boy, he spent His boy’s dear life for England. Be content: No honour of age had been more excellent.

Lieutenant Stewart G. Ridley, Royal Flying Corps, sacrificed his life in the Egyptian desert in an attempt to save a comrade. He was twenty years of age.