Sir Fabian Ware (1869–1949) was a British journalist and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He travelled to the Transvaal Colony where he became Director of Education in 1903. Two years later he became editor of The Morning Post. He expanded the paper but was forced to retire in 1911. When the First World War started, Ware was appointed commander of a mobile ambulance unit and began marking and recording the graves of those killed. In 1916 the Department of Graves Registration and Enquiries was created with Ware at its head. On 21 May 1917 the IWGC was founded; Ware served as its vice-chairman. He ended the war as a major-general, having been mentioned in despatches twice. Post-war, Ware was heavily involved in the IWGC's function. When the Second World War broke out, he continued to serve as vice-chairman of the IWGC and was re-appointed director-general of Graves Registration and Enquiries.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1805:
War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units all suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dürenstein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_D%C3%BCrenstein
1920:
In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Warrior
1960:
A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngo Dinh Diem was crushed after Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_South_Vietnamese_coup_attempt
1975:
During a constitutional crisis in Australia, Governor-General John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government and dissolved Parliament for a double-dissolution election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
war-weary: 1. Weary or tired of war. 2. Tired from fighting in a war. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/war-weary
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. --John McCrae https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_McCrae