Thursday 20th November, 7:30 pm
The Abbey Church Halls, Dunfermline
The talk will give an overview of the Commission and show examples of cemeteries and memorials all over the world, and from both world wars. It will also discuss how they are maintained and conserved today.
“It’s an amazing project, the Imperial War Graves Commission, it faced an impossible job to try and give some dignity and some sense of order to the meaningless and vast killing of the First World War”, Dan Cruikshank, Iconic War Memorials
Dave is a volunteer and researcher with the commission and has won a Spotlight Award for his work with them.