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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... died far from home : an ' immortal heritage ' , the Commission's major figure , Sir Fabian Ware , called it.5 To meet the war's scale of death , the Commission constructed some 1,850 cemeteries around the world , more than half on the ...
... died far from home : an ' immortal heritage ' , the Commission's major figure , Sir Fabian Ware , called it.5 To meet the war's scale of death , the Commission constructed some 1,850 cemeteries around the world , more than half on the ...
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... died differently to most of those on the battlefields , and those who agitated for their recognition by the state had first of all to equate their sacrifice with those who had died abroad . Rachel Davis , of The Entrance , NSW ...
... died differently to most of those on the battlefields , and those who agitated for their recognition by the state had first of all to equate their sacrifice with those who had died abroad . Rachel Davis , of The Entrance , NSW ...
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... died , a soldier's Grave won by it'.57 As the war drew further away in time , the suffering of individu- als was invoked to assert continuity between war service and death . James Connell had known ' days of war and years of suffering ...
... died , a soldier's Grave won by it'.57 As the war drew further away in time , the suffering of individu- als was invoked to assert continuity between war service and death . James Connell had known ' days of war and years of suffering ...
Contents
Imagined Graves | 12 |
The Sacred Obligation | 36 |
Gallipoli and Australian Anxiety | 59 |
Copyright | |
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