The SAS Clock

To survive is to "Beat the clock" as the names of the fallen are inscribed on the side of the plinth on which the clock stands. To the front is written "We are the Pilgrims, Master; We shall go always a little further: It may be beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow, across that angry or that glimmering sea". The words are from "The Golden road to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker and were chosen by the Rev Padre Walter Evans MBE MA CF who also wrote the Regimental collect.