EMPIRES OF THE DEAD
How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
DAVID CRANE
CONTENTS
5. The Imperial War Graves Commission
1. Equestrian Monument to Sir John Hawkwood by Paolo Uccello, 1436, fresco transferred to canvas, post restoration (Duomo, Florence, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library)
2. A soldier salutes at a grave prepared for the remains of New Zealand soldiers killed during the Dardanelles campaign at Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915 (© Imperial War Museum, Q 14340)
3. Prince of Wales with Fabian Ware and Edwin Lutyens at the unveiling of Lutyens’s Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval on 1 August 1932 (courtesy Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
4. Vendresse Cemetery, France (courtesy Honor Clerk)
5. Rudyard Kipling and his son John on the yacht Bantam, c.1910 (Private Collection / Bridgeman Art Library)
6. Caricature depicting a confrontation between Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker by William H. Nicholls, c.1914 (courtesy RIBA Library Drawings & Archives Collections)
7. Charles Holden by Francis Dodd, oil on canvas (© The Art Workers’ Guild Trustees Limited, London, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library)
8. The main entrance to the Serre Road Cemetery, No. 2, France (© Maurice Savage / Alamy)
9. Serre Road Cemetery, No. 2, France (© Maurice Savage / Alamy)
10. Etaples Cemetery, France (courtesy Honor Clerk)
11. ‘The Cemetery, Etaples, 1919’ by Sir John Lavery, 1919, oil on canvas
12. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, France, c.1935 (© Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
13. Stonemason hand-engraving a Canadian headstone destined for a cemetery in France (courtesy Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
14. Ypres, Belgium in ruins, 1919 (Photo by W. L. King)
15. ‘Menin Gate at Midnight’ by Will Longstaff, 1927, oil on canvas (courtesy Australian War Memorial)
16. Reginald Blomfield by James Jebusa Shannon, 1915, oil on canvas (courtesy RIBA Library Drawings & Archives Collections)
17. Inscription of names at the Menin Gate, Belgium (© Tim Bekaert)
18. Lone Pine Cemetery, Turkey (© Universal Images Group / DeAgostini / Alamy)
19. Funeral of a St John’s Ambulance Brigade nursing sister, Annie Bain, at Etaples (© Popperfoto / Getty Images)
20. Headstone of nursing sister A. W. Bain (courtesy Honor Clerk)