Graves Gallery

Gold, Silver, Lapis and Obsidian in the Splendid Swords of the Kings - The Royal Treasure

Gold, Silver, Lapis and Obsidian in the Splendid Swords of the Kings - The Royal Treasure of Dorak c.3000 BC - report of the finds from the excavations by James Mellaart, Assistant Director, The British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara. A small cemetery consisting of two Royal cist graves and two pithos burials of servants was found high up on a hill slope near the village of Dorak, on the southern shore of Lake Apolyont (Vilayet of Bursa) in North-west Turkey near the Sea of Marmara. Date: 1959

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Grave of Rupert Brooke in Skyros

Crosses on the Greek island of Skyros marking the grave of the English poet, Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), where he was buried having died a sea, having contracted septicaemia from an infected mosquito bite. He had joined the Royal Naval Division. The Sketch magazine, which published this photograph quoted his most famous, and as it turned out, prescient, lines, If I should die, think only this of me. That there's some corner of a foreign field. That is for ever England. Date: 1918

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If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders

If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields. The mother, widow and little daughter of a British soldier who died early in World War One visit his grave on the Western Front. The mother reverently laid upon it the medals, which, had he lived, would have been awarded him. The widow and little daughter are carrying bunches of poppies. As signifying remembrance, this flower is the emblem of Poppy Day, kept on Armistice Day. Through the efforts of the British Legion and Earl Haig's Appeal for ex-Servicemen, poppies are on sale everywhere, to raise funds to aid those who survived the war broken and poor. Date: 1921

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