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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Ware>
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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>
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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>
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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>