At the entrance to the memorial site is a plague engraved with the following words by the English journalist and poet who went by the pen name John Oxenham:

“And with bowed head and heart abased
Strive hard to grasp the future gain in this sore loss.
For not one foot of this dank sod
But drank its surfeit of the blood of gallant men
Who for their Faith, their Hope, for Life and Liberty
Here made the sacrifice.
Here gave their lives, and right willingly for you and me.”