IN MEMORIAM

Ernie TOZER

Deceased 15 May 2004

AAS Arborfield, ‘D’ Company, Intake 48B

“Following a lengthy period of illness, bravely borne, Ernie died in Dorchester County Hospital. His wife Margaret and their daughters, Sue and Tricia, were with him when he departed this mortal coil. The sympathies of all ex-Arborfield Old Boys and members of REME Past and Present are extended to Margaret, and to his twin brother Alf, formerly ‘C’ Company, intake 48A,  and his wife Sheila and family. Ernie was interred on 24 May 2004 at the Weymouth Crematorium. May his soul Rest in Peace.”

Death is nothing at all – I have only slipped away into the next room –

I am I, and you are you – whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by my old familiar name; speak to me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference into your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.

Let it be spoken without effect, without the ghost of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity.

What is death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am just waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner …

All is well.

“Epitaph” – Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)

[With grateful thanks to Pat HAYNES for providing this information]