Memory and Memorial: A Study of Official and Military Commemoration of the Dead, and Family and Community Memory in Essex and East London

Vernacular memorialization in the military: personal acts of remembrance at RAF Thorpe Abbotts

“…Archaeologists are increasingly interested in the material culture of war (e.g., Barnes 2018;Carr 2018;Carr and Mytum 2012;Joy 2002;Myers 2008;Rydén 2018;Saunders 2009). The archaeological study on the remembrance of conflict, however, has mainly focused on post-conflict memory (e.g., Black 2004;Carr 2012;Keating 2012;Moshenska 2006;Moshenska 2009;Pollard, 2015;Renshaw 2016;Stephens 2007;Stone 2004;Tarlow 1997;Trigg 2007). Grieving rites of combatants during times of war, and its associated material culture, has also been understudied.…”