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"Between the crosses row on row": Battlefield crosses as Sites of Mourning and Memory
For the 6th episode of the RCRM Speakers Series Season 2, Brian McClure will explore the history of the wooden battlefield crosses, grave markers placed at the burial sites, the debates over their replacement with headstones, and the decision that saw them shipped across the British Empire to next-of-kin or units to which the dead were affiliated
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By The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum, Georgiana Stanciu, Mark Vogelsang, Gord Heath, Chad Martin, Alex Souchan, Sean Campbell, Brad St.Croix, Ellin Bessner, Tanya GrodzinskiFor the 6th episode of the RCRM Speakers Series Season 2, Brian McClure will explore the history of the wooden battlefield crosses, grave markers placed at the burial sites, the debates over their replacement with headstones, and the decision that saw them shipped across the British Empire to next-of-kin or units to which the dead were affiliated