The Missing of the Somme

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The anticipation of memory

Silhouette: seeking a comrade’s grave, Pilckem, 22 August 1917 (Imperial War Museum)

‘One thinks for the moment no other monument is needed’ — Lutyens

Temporary graves marked on the battlefield, Pozières, 16 September 1917 (Imperial War Museum)

The surrogate dead

Soldiers marching past the temporary Cenotaph, 11 November 1919 (Mail Newspapers plc)

The construction of memory

Memorial stones (Hulton Deutsch)

What has he seen?

Battle-fatigued soldier (Imperial War Museum)

‘And the poor horses. .’ — Constantine

The 58th (London) Division Memorial at Chipilly (Mary Middlebrook)

The weight of the past

Royal Artillery Monument: the shell-carrier (Jeremy Young)

Dead weight

Royal Artillery Monument: recumbent figure (Jeremy Young)

Charles Sargeant Jagger: memorial at Paddington station

(Jeremy Young)

They are all over the country, these Tommies. .

The Holborn Memorial (Jeremy Young)

Elland Memorial

(Jeremy Young)

The self-contained ideal of remembrance

The Streatham Memorial (Jeremy Young)

Time

The Southwark Memorial (Imperial War Museum)

Mourning for all mankind?

The Canadian Memorial near St Julien (Mark Hayhurst)

The only sound. .

Gassed by John Singer Sargent (Imperial War Museum)

The Canadian Memorial on Vimy Ridge

(Mark Hayhurst)

Grief. .

Canadian Memorial on Vimy Ridge (Mark Hayhurst)

‘Totenlandschaft’

Scene of devastation, Château Wood, Ypres, 29 October 1917 (Imperial War Museum)

The ruins of Ypres Cathedral, summer 1916

(Imperial War Museum)

The Monk by the Sea, by Caspar David Friedrich

(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)

An Infinity of Waste

Passchendaele, November 1917 (Imperial War Museum)