Thesis Chapters by David W Savage
Gill's war , 2016
The burial photograph taken at a German Cemetery on the 4 April 1944 is of Flight Sergeant Jones ... more The burial photograph taken at a German Cemetery on the 4 April 1944 is of Flight Sergeant Jones DFM’s funeral. His daughter Gill Sarsby was born one month after this event so they never met. Gill has always mourned not knowing her father, and only having a small amount of material culture linking them, the objects have an elevated importance. The artefact investigated in this study is the burial photograph of Flight Sergeant Jones. This precious object is deciphered using the interdisciplinary approach of Modern Conflict Archaeology, by which the photograph becomes a conduit for discovery. But also the main informant Gill is a focus of investigation to better understand the relationships between loss, material culture, memorialisation and memory. Through material culture research, engagement with landscape, memory and imagination, it will be shown an individual who had never known her father was able to feel an emotional connection with him and a gap between generations created by twentieth century conflict was bridged.
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Thesis Chapters by David W Savage