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 59
... anxiety dominated Australians ' attitudes to the peninsula during the war and for a decade after . It was an anxiety that began as soon as Australian soldiers left Gallipoli in December 1915 , and it centred on the graves of those that ...
... anxiety dominated Australians ' attitudes to the peninsula during the war and for a decade after . It was an anxiety that began as soon as Australian soldiers left Gallipoli in December 1915 , and it centred on the graves of those that ...
Page 67
... anxiety hinged on fears that graves had been desecrated . These con- cerns quickly supplanted any rhetoric of the Turk as noble enemy , forming themselves in some cases into an expectation of violated graves . In 1920 , British chaplain ...
... anxiety hinged on fears that graves had been desecrated . These con- cerns quickly supplanted any rhetoric of the Turk as noble enemy , forming themselves in some cases into an expectation of violated graves . In 1920 , British chaplain ...
Page 110
... anxiety ... among rela- tives ' in response to the policy of equality of treatment , but believed that any anxiety would be allayed by the knowledge that headstones would be erected . It was , Ware insisted , ' most undesirable that ...
... anxiety ... among rela- tives ' in response to the policy of equality of treatment , but believed that any anxiety would be allayed by the knowledge that headstones would be erected . It was , Ware insisted , ' most undesirable that ...
Contents
Imagined Graves | 12 |
The Sacred Obligation | 36 |
Gallipoli and Australian Anxiety | 59 |
Copyright | |
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