“DAVID COARD Pilot Officer R.A.F. Entirely selfless and unsoiled by man's greed His loveliness will never die Earned man's wings December 1940 Earned God's wings 12th April 1941 The eve of his 20th birthday”

In Memory of Pilot Officer DAVID COARD 60826 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died aged 20 on 12th April 1941 Son of Douglas and Ethel May Coard, of Felsted. Remembered with honour GREAT LEIGHS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Photographer: Pat Watkinson