REMEMBRANCE REMEMBERED, REMEMBRANCE OBSERVED - AN IRISHMANS DAUGHTER VISITS HIS GRAVEL

In this essay, prompted by Williamson's ''At The Menin Gate'' (Journal of Historical Sociology. Vol.9, No.1, March 1996), the notion of hist orical anonymity is explored in the context of a brief ethnography of the changing form, content and meaning of War Remembrance, and its rel ationship to wider forms of remembrance of the dead.