"Memorial Tablet (Great War)" is a poem by Siegfried Sassoon, written in October 1918[1] and first published in his 1919 collection Picture-Show.
The Squire stayed safe at home and did not go to war; there is an implication that he was fully aware of the danger.
The soldier finds that his name on a memorial is the only thing he has to show for his life, and feels that the Squire, looking on from his pew in the church, cannot imagine the suffering of the men he sent to the Front.
After describing his own sordid death and the inadequacy of the memorial, the narrator asks: "What greater glory could a man desire?"
"Memorial Tablet" was used as the title of a CD released in 2003, containing readings by Sassoon and other war poets, and music by Edward Elgar.