Maj. Crispin Tarrant, MC

Decorated for valour at Passchendaele. On the question of why a man of such evident bravery had also corrected three officers’ battlefield reports during a single offensive, Major Tarrant is reported to have said: "A misplaced apostrophe in a despatch is a worse enemy than the German. The German will, in time, withdraw. The apostrophe will not." The Society holds the remark to be the finest articulation of its purpose in the modern era. The remark is printed, in 14-point Caslon, above the door of the Society’s rooms.