A Life Well Lived?

 

Unfortunately, not in this case.

If you see a cemetery monument that looks like it is sheared off at the top, this means someone has died too young. Usually erected by grieving parents.

A life well lived is often memorialized by soaring spires.

So unfortunately, this sheared off monument here in Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery represents a life cut short.

This monument was erected to the memory of John and Jesse Horsey's only son Clifton.

The inscription reads: "In proud and loving memory of Clifton Malbank Horsey, Lieutenant 5th Royal Highlanders Montreal on active service in the Fifth 13th Battalion, First Canadian Division, only son of John Hayden and Jesse Arnold Horsey, who was killed in action near Ypres on April 22nd, 1916 in his 26th year."

Often these types monuments are erected to honour the war dead.  The young war dead.....