Grave Location: IV. E. 9.

A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

From the CWGC Files:

Private

CALLAWAY, RICHARD C.

Service Number B/43336

Died 22/05/1944

Aged 25

48th Highlanders of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Son of Eugene F. and Sadie Callaway, of Madison, Indiana, U.S.A.

INSCRIPTION

OUR SON, THO' THY SMILE BE LOST TO SIGHT, IN MEMORY THOU ART DEAR

About the cemetery: The site for CASSINO WAR CEMETERY was originally selected in January 1944, but the development of the battle during the first five months of that year made it impossible to use it until after the Germans had withdrawn from Cassino. During these early months of 1944, Cassino saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Italian campaign, the town itself and the dominating Monastery Hill proving the most stubborn obstacles encountered in the advance towards Rome. The majority of those buried in the war cemetery died in the battles during these months.

The text on the gravestone is written in English and reads:

B/43336 PRIVATE

R.C. CALLAWAY

48^TH HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA

22^ND MAY 1944         AGE 25

(SYMBOL OF A CROSS)

OUR SON, THO' THY SMILE BE LOST TO SIGHT, 

IN MEMORY THOU ART DEAR