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 17
... expression of grief , however , was not always welcome in public . Publicly , soldiers ' deaths assumed particular ... expressing grief for those deaths remained a largely private exercise . Its public face was stoical : death on this ...
... expression of grief , however , was not always welcome in public . Publicly , soldiers ' deaths assumed particular ... expressing grief for those deaths remained a largely private exercise . Its public face was stoical : death on this ...
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... expression of private grief , and enabled mourners to begin to acknowledge the deaths . The notion of a ' farewell ' , embrac- ing both the moments of death and the rituals of burial , found its expression here , even if in what Brian ...
... expression of private grief , and enabled mourners to begin to acknowledge the deaths . The notion of a ' farewell ' , embrac- ing both the moments of death and the rituals of burial , found its expression here , even if in what Brian ...
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... expressions : We realised during the war that only some form of benevo- lent autocracy could control the situation which ... expression , and having conceded that the Commission was ' in the first place the servants of the individual ...
... expressions : We realised during the war that only some form of benevo- lent autocracy could control the situation which ... expression , and having conceded that the Commission was ' in the first place the servants of the individual ...
Contents
Imagined Graves | 12 |
The Sacred Obligation | 36 |
Gallipoli and Australian Anxiety | 59 |
Copyright | |
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