For the Fallen: A Century of Remembrance Since the Great War  -  Peter Francis

A Century of Remembrance Since the Great War

KORTE INHOUD

A photographic tribute to the fallen of World War I through their final resting places

Before World War I, soldiers who died while serving in the army of the British Empire could not expect a lasting or fitting memorial, so it was often their fate to be forgotten, their individuality lost in mass graves that largely went unmarked and unnoticed. World War I was to change that, because for the first time a remarkable organization—the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)—was created to ensure the dead woul...
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