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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Page 90
... John Oxenham celebrated Major Alfred Allen of the AGS as ' a discoverer of missing men ' . Eight times out of ten , Oxenham pro- claimed , Allen ' solves the mystery and sets the seal of certainty on lingering hopes and doubts at home ...
... John Oxenham celebrated Major Alfred Allen of the AGS as ' a discoverer of missing men ' . Eight times out of ten , Oxenham pro- claimed , Allen ' solves the mystery and sets the seal of certainty on lingering hopes and doubts at home ...
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... John Oxenham observed those seeking graves with limited knowledge of their location , ' wandering hopelessly about , and [ I ] was sorry for them , but could not help much'.12 What Fisher could barely have recognised in those arriving ...
... John Oxenham observed those seeking graves with limited knowledge of their location , ' wandering hopelessly about , and [ I ] was sorry for them , but could not help much'.12 What Fisher could barely have recognised in those arriving ...
Page 220
... John Oxenham , " The Helping Hand ' , in Visitation of Graves in France and Flanders , 2nd Edition , Garden City , Letchworth , 1921 , p . 3. TNA : PRO AIR 2/152 . 13 14 IS Herald , 10 December 1917 , p . I. Rose Venn - Brown to Mother ...
... John Oxenham , " The Helping Hand ' , in Visitation of Graves in France and Flanders , 2nd Edition , Garden City , Letchworth , 1921 , p . 3. TNA : PRO AIR 2/152 . 13 14 IS Herald , 10 December 1917 , p . I. Rose Venn - Brown to Mother ...
Contents
Imagined Graves | 12 |
The Sacred Obligation | 36 |
Gallipoli and Australian Anxiety | 59 |
Copyright | |
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