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 30
... missing ' denied many relatives a chance to grieve on the same terms as other mourners . In these cases no grave could be identified , and very often there were simply no details to confirm that a soldier had in fact died . Relatives ...
... missing ' denied many relatives a chance to grieve on the same terms as other mourners . In these cases no grave could be identified , and very often there were simply no details to confirm that a soldier had in fact died . Relatives ...
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... missing , however , were simply reluctant to break faith with those they were told had perished . For soldiers at the front , ' missing ' had more the implications of a totality between life and death than it did for those at home . The ...
... missing , however , were simply reluctant to break faith with those they were told had perished . For soldiers at the front , ' missing ' had more the implications of a totality between life and death than it did for those at home . The ...
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... Missing " . These remains awaited discovery , being ' in many cases , still hidden in shell holes , original trenches and isolated places'.35 Relatives of the missing in Australia awaited confirmation of death and burial as they had ...
... Missing " . These remains awaited discovery , being ' in many cases , still hidden in shell holes , original trenches and isolated places'.35 Relatives of the missing in Australia awaited confirmation of death and burial as they had ...
Contents
Imagined Graves | 12 |
The Sacred Obligation | 36 |
Gallipoli and Australian Anxiety | 59 |
Copyright | |
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