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1st Cameronians 200
1st Canadian Division 63n
3rd Flotilla, Royal Navy 250
6th Chasseurs of Lille 250
10th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 185
Admiralty 195–8
Aisne 42, 54, 249
Aitken, Charles 103
Albert 88, 122, 249
Albuera 3
All Souls, Oxford 3
Allen, Sir James 100, 210–11
Alma 2
American Civil War cemeteries 239–40
Amery, Leo 102, 233, 241
Amiens 136
Anglo-Belgian agreement (1919) 191
Anglo-French Mixed Committee 243
Anzac Day 234 and note, 244
ANZACs 140, 193
Armenian Massacres 61
Armentières 248, 257
Armistice Day 9–10, 124, 202, 216, 234, 237, 245, 251
Arras 122, 249
Arts and Crafts Movement 108, 121, 143
Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis 152–3
Aslet, Clive 205n
Asquith, H. H. 18, 101, 152, 156, 161
Asquith, Raymond 162–3 and note
Aubers Ridge 61
Auden, W. H. 225, 246
Australia, Australians 28, 81, 90n, 95, 99, 140, 190, 192, 210, 234n, 244–5 and notes
Baker, Sir Herbert
agrees to memorial compromise 144
architectural buildings in South Africa 105, 107
belief in British Imperialism 228
Cross of Lorraine 114
Delville Wood 220, 222–3
memorials built for IWGC 121
Neuve-Chapelle 220–2
relationship with Lutyens 105, 106–8, 116
South Africa House 116
tours French cemeteries 103, 108–9, 110
Tyne Cot 169, 211, 218–20
Balfour, Arthur 115, 150n
Bapaume 122
Barrie, James 111, 115, 127
Bathurst, Lilias Borthwick, Lady 25, 26, 178
battlefield visits 5, 103, 108, 109–10, 130, 190
Battles Nomenclature Committee 186
Bayonne 2
Bazalgette, Sir Joseph 198
Beatty, Admiral 252
Beaumont-Hamel 81, 95, 98, 193, 247
Beechey, Sir William 51
Bell, Gertrude 38, 99
Bethune Cemetery 41, 42, 54
Beveridge, William 23
Biarritz 2
Bickersteth, Rev Julian 134
Black Watch 248, 257
Blankenberg, Reginald 150n
Blomfield, Reginald
character and description 116, 139
comment on the cemeteries 121, 144
Cross of Sacrifice 155, 169, 172, 182, 187, 223 and note
and debate concerning memorials 115, 150n
design of experimental cemeteries 168–9, 171–2, 232
involvement with IWGC 120, 121, 139
Lutyens’s comment on 116–17
Menin Gate memorial 205–11, 212, 217
Blunden, Edmund 90–2, 131, 246, 257
Undertones of War 212, 215
Blythe, Ronald 252, 253
Boer War 20, 49, 51, 214
Bolsheviks 135
Botha, Mrs Louis 222
Boulogne 39, 122, 250, 251
Brand, Robert 102
B.R.C.S. (Base Recovery Communication Systems) 42
British Army 3
changing attitude towards 6–8
commemoration of individual unit exploits 190
in the Crimea 9
effect of First World War on 45–6, 57–8
and graves of executed men 88–9
opening attack at Passchendaele 213
Pals’ battalions 48
policing role 51–2
politics of 4
recruitment to 4–5
suspicion of 4
territorial battalions 47–8
British Empire 81–9, 137, 165, 178, 193, 202, 203, 205n, 222, 234 and note, 236, 239, 240, 242, 243, 244, 256
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 30, 49, 57, 68, 137
Brittain, Edward 132
Brittain, Vera 61, 62, 132
Broadley (volunteer searcher) 43, 45, 74
Brussels 2, 191
Waterloo Monument 3n
Buchan, John 20, 102, 115
Buchanan, Gray 46
Burdett-Coutts, Angela 152
Burdett-Coutts, William (formerly William Ashmead-Bartlett) 151–8, 181, 203
Burn, Colonel 162, 163–4
Buttes New British Cemetery 211, 223
Byng, General Sir Julian 252
Byron, Lord George 5, 7
Byron, Robert 106
Calais Southern Cemetery 172
Cameron Highlanders 46
Canada, Canadians 28, 81, 82, 89, 99, 190, 192, 205n, 247
Caporetto 102
Cavell, Edith 251
Cecil, Lady Florence 149, 198
Cecil, Lieutenant G. E. 164n
Cecil, Lord Robert 38, 41, 42, 72, 151, 153, 164–5
Cecil, Lady Violet 164n, 201
Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery 257
Champagne region 135
Chanter, Captain 230–2
Chemin des Dames 135, 194
Chettle, Lieutenant Colonel 192, 209–10
Chicago Tribune 119
Churchill, Winston 99, 155, 156, 164, 169, 174, 190
Clark, Champ 239
Clark, Mancel 205n
Clarke, Kenneth 120
Clayton, P. B. 218
Clemesha, Frederick Chapman 63n
Commonwealth War Graves Commission 60, 86, 96
see also Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries; Graves Registration Commission; Imperial War Graves Commission
Comrades of the Great War 151
Connaught Rangers 251
Cooper, Duff 46
Corunna 3n
Council for the Preservation of Rural England 258
Courtrai 39
Cox, General Sir H. V. 150n
Crawford, Lord 116, 191
crematoria 66–7
Crimean War 6, 7–8, 9, 80, 97
Cromer, Lord 19
Curtis, Lionel 20
Curzon, Lord 107, 248
Daily Mail 251
Davidson, Randall, Archbishop of Canterbury 111–12, 113
Dawson, Geoffrey 20, 241
Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) 101
Delcassé incident (1905) 24
Delville Wood 81, 95, 98, 176, 193, 220, 222–3
Dick, Sir William Reid 217
Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries (DGR&E) 80–1
army sensibilities 88–9
challenges 89–95
General Routine Orders for 84–5
and the home front 95
imperial status of 83–4
increased workload 95
membership of 81–3
national and cultural sympathies 82, 83–4, 85–7, 89–90
see also Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Graves Registration Commission; Imperial War Graves Commission
Dix, Otto 223n
Dominions
advisory role in IWGC 98, 100, 123
concerned about particularising graves 76
participation in all theatres of war 81
proactive role of 189, 190
reaction to joint imperial monument 210
represented on DGR&E 81, 82, 85
sense of pride and self-reliance 193
use of native plants in cemeteries 89
visiting graves of 235
Ware’s view of 241
wish for separate memorials 186, 211n
Douaumont 257
Doullens Cemeteries 172
Dove, John 218
Durham, Lieutenant Colonel 183
Earle, Sir Lionel 39–40, 45, 88 and note, 94n, 113, 115, 253
East Africa 9, 139
Easter Rising, Dublin (1916) 244n
Eastern Front 95, 135
Eaton, Charlotte 3
Edward, Prince of Wales 81, 83, 96, 97, 99, 149, 198, 215
Egypt 89, 99, 148
Elvas, Portugal 2
Elwood, Mary 175
Etaples 122, 218
Etaples Cemetery 169, 170, 172
Facey, Albert 134
Festubert 61, 122, 133
Florence, Duomo 1–2
Foch, Marshal 63n, 230–1, 250
Forceville Cemetery 171
Forster, E. M. 257
A Passage to India 225–6
Fothergill, Jack 181
French, Field Marshal Sir John 68, 252
Fry, Wilfie 204
Fryatt, Captain C. A. 251
Fulstow, Lincolnshire 204
Gallipoli 81, 82, 89, 98, 132, 134, 139, 140, 152, 181, 193, 199, 244
cemeteries 140, 170, 235, 236, 247
Garstin, Sir William 99
gas attacks 63 and note, 81
George V, King 71, 74, 81, 103, 195, 219, 220, 238–9, 252, 253
German Spring Offensive 93, 122, 190
Germany, Germans 14, 24–5, 30, 31, 33, 34, 39, 40, 43, 44, 46, 74–5, 88, 91, 133, 135–6, 162, 167, 173–4, 213, 218, 223, 230, 240, 241, 242, 243–4
Gettysburg, Battle of 8, 11, 239
Gill, Colonel 249
Gill, MacDonald 150n
Gillespie, Douglas 75
Gillespie, Thomas 75
Giotto di Bondone 228
Gladstone, William Glynne Charles 69–74, 148, 199
Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick, Lord 22, 24, 25
Gommecourt 95
Gordon, Patrick 20
Gosling, Harry 99, 151, 154
Gotto, Captain Basil 247
Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension to Ecoivres 172
Grave Concentration Units 142–3
Graves Registration Commission (GRC) 52–7, 59–60, 73, 80, 131
see also Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries; Imperial War Graves Commission
Graves Registration Units 84, 85
Graves, Robert 72n
Greece 9
Grenfell, Captain the Hon. Julian 133
Groote Schuure 107
Grünewald, Matthias 223n
Guillemont Cemetery 163n
Haeffner, Lieutenant F. W. 257
Haig, Field Marshal Sir Douglas 12, 48–9, 103, 122, 212, 248, 252
Hardy, Thomas, Drummer Hodge 1, 104
Havelock, Major General Sir Henry 6
Hawkwood, Sir John 1–2
Hawthorn Ridge 95
Hertzog, General J. B. M. 222
Hesdin 167
Hill, Arthur 89, 103–4, 130, 217
Hindenburg Line 136, 191
Hitler, Adolf 230, 241, 242
HMS Verdun 250
Holden, Charles 169, 223, 228
Hooge Crater Cemetery 200
Horne, General Sir Henry 252
Hundred Years War 3
Hunter, Lena 182
Hunter, N. D. D. 182
Hussey, Christopher 108
Imperial War Conference (1917) 139
Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC)
and abortive attempt at compromise on headstone design 150n
appoints Kenyon to decide on treatment and lay-out of cemeteries 117–18, 120–1
building of cemeteries and erection of memorials 167–77, 181–8
and care of the dead 97–8
demarcation between commemoration and military celebration 189
difficulties of collecting information/finding graves 42–4
first official meeting of 120
funding per grave 139, 193
future treatment of war graves 103–5
generosity of French State and people 44, 64, 67
granted a Royal Charter 96–7, 154
inter-war challenges 231–3
membership of 99–100
obsession with equality 201–2
origins and development of 41–50, 81
Parliamentary debates on 151–65
post-war challenges and opposition 139–51
powers and remit of 100–3, 139
problems choosing an architect 105–18, 120–1
and public need for memorials and graves 199–201
and question of finance 138–9
and the Royal Navy 195–8
siting and design of monuments 189–226
and the Unknown Warrior 253–4, 256
Ware’s involvement with 60, 78, 96–102, 117, 136, 191–2, 242
see also Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries; Graves Registration Commission
India, Indians 81, 82, 106, 107, 108, 123, 140, 190, 220
Indian Mutiny 6, 8
Innes, Ian 46
International Red Cross 50, 52
International War Graves Committee 88
Inverness Copse 200
Ireland 27, 51
Irish Guards 134, 177, 179
Italy 9, 89, 181, 242
Jackson, Admiral Sir Thomas 252
Jagger, Charles 132
James, Henry 116
Jameson Raid 19
Jardine, D. R. 234n
Joffre, General Joseph 68, 231
Johnson, Dr Samuel 4
Joint War Committee 33–4
Jowett, Benjamin 18
Jutland 14, 196
Kabul 8
Kenyon, Sir Frederic 203
and abortive attempt at compromise in headstone design 150n
appointed adviser to IWGC 117, 120–1
character and description 119
comment on individual graves 123–4
and link between place of death and commemoration 193–5
and question of a central monument 124, 125, 127–8
and question of finance 138–9
recommendations 125–7, 128–31, 134, 137, 143–4, 145, 170, 174, 189
respects cultural and national practices 123
terms of reference 117–18, 216
visits burial grounds in France 122
Kerr, Philip (Marquess of Lothian) 20, 102, 241
Kipling, Lieutenant John 178–80 and note, 224–5
Kipling, Rudyard 4, 239
comment on Le Treport cemetery 144
comment on splitting-up of memorial tablets 185
and the death of his son 61, 157, 178–81, 224
and generic names of Battle sites 186
and the homesick scent of wattle 90n
and importance of remembrance and place of death 183
inscription on the Menin Gate 209
prejudices of 177–8
prophecy concerning the War 28
provides wording for unidentified dead 175
rejects idea of ‘dud’ graves 177
and the War Graves Commission 99, 139
works
Epitaphs of War: ‘Common Form’ 224
‘The Gardener’ 223
‘Have you news of my boy Jack?’ 180
‘Oh, the road to En-dor is the oldest road’ 200
‘Recessional’ 227
Stalky & Co 16
Kirman, Charles 204
Kitchener, Field Marshal Lord 31, 90
Kollwitz, Käthe 224
Kruger, President 19
Kut, Iraq 61
La Boiselle 95
La Ferté-sous-Jouarre 211, 216
Ladysmith 51
Langton, Una 183–4
Law of 29 December (1915) 64–8, 79, 81, 83, 100, 190
Law, Colonel Francis 134
Lawley, Sir Arthur 34, 53, 56–7, 76
Lawrence, T. E. 119
Le Cateau 41
Le Havre 69
Le Treport Cemetery 143, 172
League of Nations 240
Leighton, Roland 62, 226
Leipzig (Somme) 95
Leipzig, Battle of 11
Les Baraques British Cemetery, Sangatte 172
Lethaby, William 145
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinghe 172
Lille 13
Lloyd George, David 98, 101, 156, 248
London
Athenaeum 111
British Museum 119, 120
Cenotaph 9–10, 12, 197, 202–3, 245, 251, 252
Geological Survey Museum 170
Hyde Park Memorial 132
St James’s Park 167–8
St Paul’s Cathedral 5
Savoy Hotel 87
South Africa House 116
Temple Gardens and Embankment 198
tomb of the Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey 247–58
Trafalgar Square 195–6
Westminster Abbey 5
Winchester House, St James’s Square 94 and note, 99
London County Council (LCC) 197
Longstaff, Will, ‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ 200
Longworth, Philip 98, 168, 192, 199, 243
Loos 61–2, 186
Lorimer, Sir Robert 197
Louis XVIII 6
Loyal Women’s Guild 49
Ludendorff, Lieutenant General Erich von 135
Lusitania 61
Lutyens, Sir Edwin
architectural style 105–6
belief in equality and no judgments 113, 127, 198n
Cenotaph 202–3, 252
character and description 107, 111, 112, 116–17, 228
comment on Blomfield 116–17
involvement with IWGC 103, 107–17, 121
Mercantile Memorial 198 and note
rivalry with Baker concerning War memorial designs 107–17
Robert Byron’s comment on Viceroy’s House, New Delhi 106–7
Stone of Remembrance 111–15, 127, 131, 144, 165, 169–70, 172, 209
Thiepval Memorial 92, 143, 211–16
tours French cemeteries 103, 108, 109–10, 130
vision for identical headstones in ‘ordered ranks’ 126
Lutyens, Lady Emily 105, 109, 112, 113
Lydford, Dartmoor 204, 205n
Lystenhoek cemetery 144
Macaulay, Lord 221
Macdonald, Rev F. W. 227
Mackay, Captain Ian 46, 54, 57
Macready, Sir Charles 51
Macready, General Sir Nevil 47–8, 49, 50–2, 56, 63, 68, 82, 94, 115, 176
Madden, Admiral Sir Charles 252
Malcolm, Ian 42, 50, 53, 68, 72
Mallet, Bernard 111
Mametz 95
Maricourt 95
Markham, Violet 78, 79, 227, 233–4
Marne 42, 55, 104, 135, 186, 194
Marriot, Rev F. R. 200
Marvell, Andrew 121
Masefield, John 95, 213
Melbourne Argus 181
Menin Gate 191, 194, 205–11, 212, 217, 247
Menin Road 39
Menzies, Robert 245n
Mesopotamia 9, 89, 132, 139, 187n
Messer, Captain A. 64
Messines, Battle of 102
Messines Ridge 211, 223
Meteren 43–4
Methuen, Field Marshal Lord 252
Meux, Admiral the Hon. Sir Hedworth 252
Middle East cemeteries 170
Midleton, Earl of 190–5, 211
Millerand, M. 64–5, 79, 83
Millet, Philippe 83
Milner, Viscount Alfred 18–22, 23, 34, 37, 52, 63, 78, 99, 102, 105, 164n, 241, 258
Milner’s Kindergarten 20, 23, 102, 241
Mobile Ambulance Unit 28, 30, 31–50, 56, 60, 85–6, 134, 142, 190, 257
Mond, Sir Alfred 79–80, 97, 98, 150n, 177–8
Mons 30, 33, 41, 57, 137
Moore, Sir John 3n
Morning Post 13–14, 17, 22–6, 79, 235
Napoleon Bonaparte 5, 6, 13
Napoleon III 2
National Battlefield Memorial Committee (NBMC) 190–5
National Committee for the Care of Soldiers’ Graves 80–1, 96
National Federation of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers 151
Naval Memorials Committee 196
Neuve-Chapelle 61, 81, 98, 193, 220–2
New Delhi 106, 107, 108, 116, 148
New Zealand, New Zealanders 28, 81, 99, 140, 210–11, 247
Newfoundland, Newfoundlanders 10, 81, 95, 99, 140–1, 193, 247
Nieuport 194, 216
Office of Works 79–80, 94n, 98, 115, 139, 191, 197, 254
Oliver, F. S. 102
Oulchy-le-Château 218
Ovillers 95
Owen, Lieutenant Wilfred 10, 246
Palestine 9, 89
Paris 135, 194
Arc de Triomphe 256
Parkin, George 18
Parliamentary debates 151–65
Passchendaele 30, 102, 122, 181, 213
Pearson, Lionel 228
Peel, William 6
Ploegsteert 122
Plumer, Field Marshal Lord 210
Plymouth Brethren 15–16, 17, 52, 77, 227, 229, 230
Poe, Admiral Sir Edmund 99
Poperinghe 144, 163, 172
Poperinghe New Military Cemetery 172
Poynter, Sir Edward 115
Pozières 95
Quatre Bras 113
Raglan, Lord 9
Railton, Rev David 247–8, 251
Read, Herbert 214
Red Cross 99
card index of casualties 40–1
conversion of private vehicles into ambulances 31
flying unit 13
and funding for gardening programme 76, 89
and funding of professional photographers 55
relationship with St John Ambulance 31
rescue missions under fire 34–6
Ware’s relationship with 28, 32, 52, 56
and working with the French 38
Wounded and Missing Department 38
Remarque, Erich 62
All Quiet on the Western Front 131, 132–3, 134, 212
Remnant, Sir James 158, 164
Rhodes, Cecil 18, 105
Rhodes Memorial 107
RIBA 116, 197
Rio Tinto 28
River Lys 135
Roberts, Field Marshal Lord 179
Rouen 144
The Round Table journal 218
Royal Artillery 257
Royal Automobile Club (RAC) 31
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 89, 103
Royal Fine Arts Commission 116, 197, 198n
Royal Horse Artillery 252
Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) 103–4
Royal Navy 195–8, 250
Royal Parks 197
Royal Scots 43
Royal Sussex Regiment 257
Royal Welsh Fusiliers 69
Russell, W. H. 7, 8
Ryle, Herbert, Dean of Westminster 247, 248, 254–5, 256
St John Ambulance 31, 32, 55
St Pol 249
St Sever cemetery 144
St Symphorien 137
Salisbury, Lord 115
Salonika 89
San Sebastián 2, 9
Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere 228–9
Sassoon, Siegfried 125, 131, 214
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man 212
Sayers, Dorothy L., The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 212n
Schreiner, Olive 100
Schreiner, William 100
Schwaben Redoubt 95, 213
Seaforth Highlanders 43–4
Selborne, Lord 87
Serre 95
Sevastopol 8
Shakespeare, William 4, 245
Shaw, George Bernard 178
Sherriff, R. C., Journey’s End 212
Shrewsbury 3
Sixteen Poplars 95
Smuts, General J. C. 87
Soissons 194, 211, 216
Somme 14, 30, 45, 61, 83, 90, 92–3, 95, 103, 104, 122, 135, 141, 171, 186, 193, 194, 205n, 212, 249, 257
South Africa, South Africans 14, 19–22, 27, 28, 49, 51, 56, 81, 89, 95, 99, 104, 176, 193, 220, 222
Spencer, Stanley 228–9
spiritualism and paranormal phenomena 200
Stamp, Gavin 202, 215
Stewart, Lieutenant Colonel E. 41–2, 78
Stobart, Colonel 94n
Sturdee, Admiral Sir Doveton 252
Taylor, A. J. P. 101
Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 51
Tennant, Edward 162, 163n
Terlincthun Cemetery 238–9
Thiepval 90, 92
Cemetery 92–3
Lutyens’s Memorial to the Missing of the Somme 92, 143, 211–16, 224–5, 226
Thomas, J. H., MP for Derby 162–3
Thompson, E. P. 187n
Thompson, (William) Frank 187n
Tice, E. W. 257
The Times 7, 20, 31, 145, 149, 153, 171, 253, 256
Toc H 218
Toulouse, Battle of 2
Toynbee, Arnold 18
Trades Union Congress Parliamentary Committee 151
Transvaal 19, 22
Trenchard, Air Marshal Sir Hugh 252
Truelove, J. R. 211
Turkey 9, 61
Turton, E. R., MP 163
Tyne Cot Cemetery 169, 211, 216, 218–20
Uccello, Paolo 1–2, 11
Unknown Warrior 247–58
Uppingham School 27, 62, 132
Vaughan, Captain E. C. 134
Vendresse 218
Verdun 257
Versaille, Treaty of (1919) 243
Vicars, Captain Hedley 6
Villers-Bocage Communal Cemetery Extension 172
Villers-Bretonneux 190, 192, 245n, 247
Villers-Cotterêts 164n
Vimeiro 5
Vimy Ridge 82, 102, 190, 247
Vladslo Military Cemetery, Belgium 224
Voyzey, Samuel 205n
War Cabinet 88, 101, 102
war cemeteries
anomalies and exceptions 186–7
as argument against war 124–5
Australian 141
Blomfield’s ‘experimental’ cemeteries 168–9, 171–2, 232
Britishness of 217–18
dedicated to the missing 186
desecration of 244
designing and building 167–77, 217–23, 224–6
difficulties in finding 141–2
funding for 143–4, 169
German sites 223–4
horticultural programmes 89–90, 168, 172, 217–18, 221
Kenyon’s recommendations for 120, 125–7, 128–31
location 140, 144, 168, 169, 170, 171–2, 176, 181, 187, 192–3, 198n, 200, 205–26, 235
public opposition to proposals 147–51
war dead
blasted and obliterated 90–2
cremations 66–7
difficulties in burying 92–5
executed for cowardice 88–9, 134, 204
exhumation and repatriation 53, 68–74, 141, 142–3, 164n, 166, 201, 247, 248–58
funerals for 46
identifying 142–3, 173–6, 180n
Masefield’s evocation of 95
numbers of 28, 39, 61–2, 90, 92–3, 103, 135–7, 140–1, 166–7, 172, 211
Remarque’s description of 132–3
and rescuing of identity discs 92 and note, 142
in ruins of nursing convent 35
Russell’s comment on 7–8
treatment of 3, 104–5, 134
war graves
and the beauty of red poppies 103–4, 105
care of 100–1
cultural sensibilities 85–7
destruction and desecration 136, 244
development of 10–11
difficulty in digging 45
and ‘dud’ graves 176–7, 187 and note
General Routine Orders concerning 84–5
headstone design 150n
Kenyon’s views on 123–4
location and registering of 41, 43–4, 47, 48–9, 50, 53, 54–7, 73, 74, 90–5, 103, 104–5, 136, 140, 141–3, 236
and men executed for cowardice 88–9
negotiations with French government 59–61, 63–8
officers’ graves 2–3
Parliamentary debates on 151–65
photographing of 55, 142
post-1914 9–10
and problem of unidentified and missing soldiers 173–6
public opposition to proposals 145–51
quarrying, shaping, incising and lettering gravestones 12, 42–3, 84–5, 88–9, 167, 170–3, 257
suggestions for 75–6
survivals from eighteenth/ nineteenth centuries 8–9
systematic programme of planting 89–90
visited by Baker and Lutyens 108–10
war memorials
arguments and discussions concerning 189–226
Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice 155, 169, 172, 182, 187
Blomfield’s Menin Gate 205–11
choosing an architect for 105–18
inscriptions 170
IWGC funding for inscriptions 193
Kenyon’s recommendations for 124, 125, 127–8
and law of 29 December (1915) 101
link with place of death 193–5
locations 63n, 92–3, 132, 236–7
Lutyens’s Stone of Remembrance 111–15, 127, 131, 144, 165, 169–70, 172
numbers built across the country 203–4
private 63
proactive role of Dominions 189–90
and problem of missing and unidentified soldiers 173–6
public need for 199–201
suggestions for 181–4
tomb of the Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey 247–58
war missing
and the Admiralty 195, 196
at Gallipoli 236–7
dedicated cemeteries for 186
inscribing of names and raising of memorials 157, 174–6, 181–6, 200
IWGC’s scheme for 188, 192, 193, 194–5
Kipling’s son John 178–80 and note
Menin Gate 205–11
numbers of 39, 90, 136, 166, 193
search for 31, 33, 37, 41
Thiepval Memorial 92, 143, 211–16, 224–5, 226
War Office 48, 49, 51, 52, 53–4, 56, 71, 82, 205
Ware, Anna 26
Ware, Fabian Arthur Goulstone 12
accepts editorship of Morning Post 22–4
achievements 258
appointed commander of the Mobile Ambulance Unit in France 13, 28–9, 32–50
and building of memorials 191–3
and care of the Empire’s dead 97–8
Chanter’s diatribe against 230–2
character and description of 13–15, 16, 17, 32, 36–7, 59–61, 78–9, 227–8, 241
as collectivist/individualist 77–8, 226
comment on gas attacks 63n
and construction of cemeteries 172
and cost of looking after graves 139
dislikes working with the Admiralty 197–8
early life 15, 16–18
and exhumation of bodies 68–74, 164n, 247
and identification of graves 141
The Immortal Heritage 215
influence of Milner on 20–2, 24
inter-war Imperialism and speeches 233–47
involvement in DGR&E 81–7, 93–4
involvement in/support for IWGC 60, 78, 96–102, 117, 136, 191–2, 242
and Kenyon’s recommendations 130–1
and law of 29 December (1915) 64–8, 190
and Lutyens’s proposed monument 112, 114–15
marriage and children 257–8
memorial service for 233
negotiations with French government 59–61, 63–8
nicknamed ‘Lord Wargraves’ 93
obsession with issues of Empire and defence 14, 24–8, 76, 81, 82, 102, 205n, 230
oversees post-war education in Transvaal 18, 20–2
and Parliamentary debates on IWGC 153–4
and petition presented to Prince of Wales 149
reaction to Thiepval memorial 215–16
religious influence on 15–16, 229–30
and rise of Hitler’s Germany 243–4
and the setting up of the GRC 50, 52–7
and treatment of war graves and cemeteries 148–9
and the Unknown Warrior 253, 256
work as his life 258
The Worker and His Country 26, 193, 258
Waterloo 3, 5–6, 39, 113
Waugh, Evelyn, Sword of Honour 237–8
Webb, Sir Aston 207–8, 252
The Weekly Dispatch 45
Wellington, Duke of 5, 6, 39
West, Benjamin 7
Western Front 9, 61, 84, 89, 130, 140, 168, 169, 186, 191, 194, 195, 211, 238, 249
Whitehead, Colonel 93
Wilkinson, Spenser 24, 25–6, 27, 53
Wilson, Field Marshal Sir Henry 252
Wilson, Woodrow 61
Wimereux Communal Cemetery 172, 223
Winter, Jay 225
Wolfe, General 7
Wolmer, Viscount 158–61
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps 90
Worrall, Ernest 115
Wyatt, Brigadier L. J. 249
Ypres 30, 33, 39, 47, 69, 104, 114, 130, 133, 135, 185, 186, 191, 194, 200, 212, 249
Cemeteries 63n, 144, 216
First Ypres 130
Menin Gate 191, 194, 205–11
Third Ypres 93, 103, 122, 193
Zweig, Stefan 208