Great little anecdote involving the L42 i just read

[CINDERS]

When you go home
Tell them of us and say,
For their tomorrow,
We gave our today.

Inscription on the monument of the British Second Division on Garrison Hill at Kohima, India, commemorating the 17,587 British casualties at the Battle of Kohima, 5th April - 30th May 1944

Source ~ The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations Edited By Peter G Tsouras ISBN- 18536875865 (This is a great addition to any library I often refer to it at times)