Abstract
ABSTRACT During and after the First World War, the burial of the British dead was undertaken by the Imperial War Graves Commission. The Commission established the now-familiar military cemeteries and helped shape the forms of war commemoration and mourning, but as the Commission formulated and implemented its plans in the immediate postwar period, the public responded in various ways to design proposals. Newspapers covered the Commission plans and readers responded, through letters to the editor, political campaigns, and more. This paper explores reader responses in The Times to the IWGC cemetery designs, especially those related to headstone uniformity, for what they reveal not just about mourning the dead but about understandings of British democracy and wartime citizenship.
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