A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great WarSixty thousand Australians died during the First World War. This book is the first major study to examine the roles of war graves and cemeteries in private grief and mourning, through archival research of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the organization responsible for commemorating the million soldiers of the British Empire who died in the war. A Distant Grief reorients and enriches international discussion of reactions to death and commemoration during, and after, the First World War. The author, Bart Ziino, has written on war memorials, Gallipoli, and the Australian memory of war. The thesis on which this book is based won the 2005 Australian Historical Association's Serle Award for the best thesis in Australian History. |
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... British Empire died in that war , among the millions lost on all sides . These losses were traumatic , and not simply in their scale . Death in this war radically disrupted Australians ' expectations and experiences of death . Shifts in ...
... British Empire died in that war , among the millions lost on all sides . These losses were traumatic , and not simply in their scale . Death in this war radically disrupted Australians ' expectations and experiences of death . Shifts in ...
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... British authorities initiated new systems for dealing with soldiers ' graves . Following the devastating battle of the Marne in September 1914 , a Red Cross Unit under Fabian Ware expanded its duties to include registration of graves ...
... British authorities initiated new systems for dealing with soldiers ' graves . Following the devastating battle of the Marne in September 1914 , a Red Cross Unit under Fabian Ware expanded its duties to include registration of graves ...
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... British Major Arthur Lees was outraged in the belief that Turks , not content with rifling exposed bodies , had ' apparently been playing marbles with the skulls & tip - cat with the bones — the brutes ! '46 Hughes took the chance to ...
... British Major Arthur Lees was outraged in the belief that Turks , not content with rifling exposed bodies , had ' apparently been playing marbles with the skulls & tip - cat with the bones — the brutes ! '46 Hughes took the chance to ...
Contents
Imagined Graves | 12 |
The Sacred Obligation | 36 |
Gallipoli and Australian Anxiety | 59 |
Copyright | |
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