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 163
... pilgrim experiences , intended to help console those who remained at home . Pilgrims from Australia brought comfort and something of that personal connection with graves so patently unavailable to the majority of grieving Australians ...
... pilgrim experiences , intended to help console those who remained at home . Pilgrims from Australia brought comfort and something of that personal connection with graves so patently unavailable to the majority of grieving Australians ...
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... pilgrims are allowed to pass by in silence ? ' 105 ' Mother ' , who had lost her son early in the Gallipoli campaign , endorsed the call for an official ceremony as an opportunity for those at home to take part in the pilgrimage . ' I ...
... pilgrims are allowed to pass by in silence ? ' 105 ' Mother ' , who had lost her son early in the Gallipoli campaign , endorsed the call for an official ceremony as an opportunity for those at home to take part in the pilgrimage . ' I ...
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Australians, War Graves and the Great War Bart Ziino. The longings that individual pilgrims ' accounts had begun to serve came more clearly to the surface as this scheme attempted to draw distant mourners directly ... pilgrims PILGRIMAGE 183.
Australians, War Graves and the Great War Bart Ziino. The longings that individual pilgrims ' accounts had begun to serve came more clearly to the surface as this scheme attempted to draw distant mourners directly ... pilgrims PILGRIMAGE 183.
Contents
Imagined Graves | 12 |
The Sacred Obligation | 36 |
Gallipoli and Australian Anxiety | 59 |
Copyright | |
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