2 Inglis, Ken 'The Homecoming: The War Memorial Movement in Cambridge, England', Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 27 (1992), p. 585 (Back)

3 Grieves, p. 39; Winter, Jay Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto: Cambridge, 1993) (Back)

4 Moriarty, Catherine 'Christian Iconography and First World War Memorials', Imperial War Museum Review, 6, pp. 63-76 and 'The Absent Dead and Figurative First World War Memorials', Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 39 (1995), pp. 7-40; Borg, Alan War Memorials from Antiquity to the Present (Leo Cooper: London, 1991) (Back)

5 Winter, Jay Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto: Cambridge, 1993), p. 78 (Back)

6 ibid. (Back)

7 ibid. (Back)

8 ibid. (Back)

9 ibid., p. 79 (Back)

10 ibid. (Back)

11 Brown, Jane Lutyens and the Edwardians: An English Architect and His Clients (Penguin Books Ltd.: London, 1996), p. 107 (Back)

12 Hollis, Christopher Along the Road to Frome (Harrap, 1958), p. 242 cited in Brown, p. 107 (Back)

13 McGarvie, Mike History of Mells Park FSA, cited in Brown, p. 107 (Back)

14 Brown, p. 109 (Back)

15 ibid., p. 110 (Back)

16 Hynes, Samuel A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (The Bodley Head: London, 1990), p. 270 (Back)

17 ibid. (Back)

18 ibid. (Back)

19 Bruce, Alex Monuments, Memorials and the Local Historian (The Historical Association, Dorset: 1997), p. 6 (Back)

20 ibid. (Back)

21 ibid. (Back)

22 ibid., p. 8 (Back)

23 ibid. (Back)

24 ibid. (Back)

25 Longworth, Philip The Unending Vigil: A History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 1917-1967 (Constable: London, 1967), p. 32 (Back)

26 ibid. (Back)

27 ibid., p. 124 (Back)

28 ibid., p. 45 (Back)

29 ibid. Edward Horner's family were not the only ones to accept such an offer; Raymond Asquith's family, as I will discuss later, also accepted the offer, and I have seen such wooden crosses in a chapel in one Cheltenham's churches. See my war memorials essay. (Back)

30 ibid., pp. 46, 51 (Back)

31Bushaway, Bob 'Name Upon Name: The Great War and Remembrance' in Porter, Roy (ed.) Myths of the English (Polity Press: Cambridge, 1992), p. 138 (Back)

32 ibid., p. 139 (Back)

33 ibid., p. 140 (Back)

34 Boorman, Derek At the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials (Dunnington Hall: Yorkshire, 1988), p. 2 (Back)

35 ibid. (Back)

36 ibid., p. 22 (Back)

37 ibid. (Back)

38 ibid. (Back)

39 My survey of the individual memorials within the church showed that none of these men appeared to be St Andrew's parishioners, and I noted that the board outside the church gave the church's name as 'St Andrew's, Mells, with Vobster'. Finally I consulted the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's database via the Internet, which listed several of these men as sons of Vobster families, and I contacted the vicar of St Andrew's, who confirmed that when Vobster parish church had closed, its congregation had joined St Andrew's, with the memorial being relocated. (Back)

40 King, Alex Memorials of the Great War in Britain: The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance (Berg: Oxford & New York, 1998), p. 132 (Back)

41 ibid. (Back)

42 I deduce he was better known as Geoffrey from the fact that he is listed on the parish memorial as Geoffrey Bates. (Back)

43 King, p. 21 (Back)

44 ibid., p. 27 (Back)

45 ibid. (Back)

Bibliography

Books

Boorman, Derek the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials Dunnington Hall: Yorkshire, 1988)

Borg, Alan War Memorials from Antiquity to the Present (Leo Cooper: London, 1991)

Brown, Jane Lutyens and the Edwardians: An English Architect and His Clients (Penguin Books Ltd.: London, 1996)

Bruce, Alex Monuments, Memorials and the Local Historian (The Historical Association, Dorset: 1997)

Bushaway, Bob 'Name Upon Name: The Great War and Remembrance' in Porter, Roy (ed.) Myths of the English (Polity Press: Cambridge, 1992)

Hynes, Samuel A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture (The Bodley Head: London, 1990)

King, Alex Memorials of the Great War in Britain: The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance (Berg: Oxford & New York, 1998)

Longworth, Philip The Unending Vigil: A History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 1917-1967 (Constable: London, 1967)

Porter, Roy (ed.) Myths of the English (Polity Press: Cambridge, 1992)

Winter, Jay Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto: Cambridge, 1993)

Journals

Brown, Janet 'Recording War Memorials in Northumberland', The Local Historian, November 1996, pp. 209-222

Inglis, Ken 'The Homecoming: The War Memorial Movement in Cambridge, England', Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 27 (1992), pp. 583-605

Grieves, Keith 'Investigating Local War Memorial Committees: Demobilised Soldiers, the Bereaved and Expressions of Local Pride in Sussex Villages, 1918-1921', The Local Historian, February 2000, pp. 39-58

Mansfield, Nick 'Class Conflict and Village War Memorials, 1914-1924', Rural History, (1995) Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 67-87

Moriarty, Catherine 'The National Inventory of War Memorials', The Local Historian, August 1990, pp. 123-5

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