Australian War Graves Workers and World War One Devoted Labour for the Lost, the Unknown but not Forgotten Dead /

• Main Authors: Cahir, Fred (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Weuffen, Sara (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Smith, Matt (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Bakker, Peter (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Caminiti, Jo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Historiography.; Islands of the Pacific-History.; Military history.; Memory Studies.; Australasian History.; History of Military.

This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War. It tells the story of the men of the Australian Graves Detachm...

Table of Contents:

• "Their Last Resting Place": Foundations of Graves Work
• The Australian War Graves Effort (1919-1922)
• "A Man of Silent Substance": Major John Eldred Mott MC
• "He took pleasure in doing his duty": Staff-Sgt. Frank Cahir DSM, MM
• "Dark in Complexion": The Indigenous War Graves Workers
• "A Credible Officer befallen by Circumstance?" Captain Allen Charles Waters Kingston
• William Frampton McBeath (FC)
• Their Legacy.