This panel is located to the left of the central panel. To the right of the central panel are two French saints, Martin of Tours and Joan of Arc. For Ethel Barton, these French saints were more than just a general reference to the theatre in which there were so many Australian losses; her son had been in France, and the parish paper published a letter in which he described how his activities ranged from eating horseflesh for Christmas dinner to playing the organ accompaniment to three vocal solos in the 'Grand Messe' on Christmas morning, in the church in the village in which he was quartered.

Even more extraordinary than this personal link with France for the Barton family is the actual representation of the AIF soldier, his head surrounded by the AIF rising sun insignia, whose rays extend to make up a kind of halo. There appears to be no visual equivalent of this image anywhere else in Australia, though there are suggestions of something similar in the depiction of a nurse as an angel. But there were verbal parallels. When the member of parliament for Toowong called the war dead 'real saints', he was far from alone in holding such an opinion. In the parish paper, Hughes had written of those who died in battle as though they were the equivalent of martyrs given entry to Paradise through a baptism of blood. Conversely, even in the early years of the war, there were Australian writers who gave voice to the rejection of such imagery by some of the troops. That it was so much false rhetoric was clearly the view of H. McCann when he wrote