Manojlović Pintar, Olga (2014) Bereavement and Mourning (South East Europe). 1914–1918 Online, International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

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Abstract

The Great War impacted the lives of almost every family in South East Europe. Unable to properly mourn the bodies of their loved ones who died at the front far from home, survivors combined traditional grieving practices with newly invented forms of honoring dead soldiers. Inscribing the names of the fallen on memory plaques and monuments and maintaining military graveyards represented specific ways of grieving and preserving the memory of the fallen within the community during the initial post-war years.

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