The Remembrance Trust
Tributes to Valour
Published on 16. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-0687613-2-4 (ISBN)
Description
Foreword by HRH The Princess Royal
Preface by Algy Cluff
... some corner of a foreign field ...
How a nation treats its dead fighting men is a telling barometer. How were soldiers viewed by society? Were lower ranks thought deserving of having honour bestowed on their graves? Was death in battle or in the course of duty worthy of remembrance? Did those who died far from the mother country warrant commemoration - and who at home would ever know?
The graves of the majority of those who have died for their country since August 1914 are the responsibility of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
But what of those who fell in previous conflicts - in the Seven Years War, the Revolutionary and French Wars, and the various wars of empire?
The Remembrance Trust, founded by Algy Cluff in 2018, has begun to address the issue of caring for early military memorials.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
50 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
214 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0687613-2-4 (9781068761324)
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A Trustee of the Remembrance Trust, Dr Roger Bowdler was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and worked for English Heritage (later Historic England) from 1989 to 2018. His specialism is funerary art and architecture, ranging from 17th-century tombs to war memorials. He is currently a partner with the planning consultants Montagu Evans LLP. A Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers, Roger has also been a Commissioner of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. He sits on the London Diocesan Advisory Committee and is a member of the Church Buildings Council's sculpture committee. His history of the British cemetery, co-written with Brent Elliott, will be published by Liverpool University Press in 2026.