The Pilgrim's Guide to the Ypres Salient,

PILGRIM\u2019S GUIDE TO THE YPRES SALIENT\nOne of the earliest guidebooks to the Ypres Salient, stated by the author to be compiled for the ex-servicemen who may wish to visit the graves and battlefields of the Great War. Unusually, and interestingly, it includes essays on various aspects of service in the Salient: Hugh Pollard on infantry, Walter Gardiner on mining, F. Worthington on RAMC Work; Machine Guns in the Salient by \u2018Maxim\u2019, etc\nWorks such as this guide formed the \u2018Roots of Remembrance\u2019 that 100+ years on still attract pilgrims in their droves to visit the Western front and its memorials to the fallen.\nMuch research on the commemoration and memory of the Great War in the twenties and thirties concentrates on how vast numbers of people sought to deal with the deaths of their loved ones, or veterans\u2019 attempts to interpret their wartime experiences. Such studies often focus on the memorialisation and commemoration on the home front. Far less research.