Denbighshire Free Press - Saturday 09 November 1901 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002065/19011109/121/0006 TABLET TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN FOSBERY, Last week there was put up in the Parish Church a very chaste and costly brass mural tablet to the memory of Captain Fosbery, who was killed in-January last in the Transvaal, second son of Mrs Fosbury, late of Pentre Mawr, Llandyrnog, and now of Bryn Elwy, St Asaph Mr Rigby Pentrmawr, acted throughout as secretary and treasurer. The inscription on the tablet is as follows :— "In affectionate memory of Captain Francis Langford Fosbery, the Royal Irish Regiment, and late of this parish, who fell fighting for his country, near Belfast, in the Transvaal. on the night of January 7th, 1901; aged 30 years." This tablet is erected by his friends. "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." . The services on Sunday morning at church had special reference to the occasion, appropriate lessons, collects and hymns being selected. In the course of the sermon from 2 Tim. iv. 7, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course." The Rector, after a brief preface pointing out that the words were St Paula's prophetical anticipations respecting his own future, and that no prophecy was of private interpretation. but was applicable to all states and conditions of men by way of anology or by way of contrast, and that St Paul, the renowned warrior and soldier of the Cross, did not confine them to himself alone, but said, "and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing." This prophecy we can apply as history. Said :-- 0n the 30th of March, 1879, it was my sorrowful duty and privilege to refer from this pulpit to the sad death (which occurred on the Friday previous) of the good, upright, and much respected father of the young soldier to whose memory. we, his friends and admirers, have placed this beautiful tablet on the wall of this church. It is, I think, fitting' that it should be put up in this church. Though he was net born here. he was too young when he came here to have remembered any other places. Here he spent the whole of his young life until he entered the army and departed to take up his duties in the service of his country in . India, where he remained until permisision was given him to meet the enemies of his country in South Africa, where, as stated on the tablet, he fell fighting for his country near Belfast on the night of January 7th, 1901. He met with a soldier's death, the death of a brave man. "He fought a good fight and finished his course."