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"Legacy wrecks as memorials and maritime war graves" [2019] ELECD 2400; in Forrest, Craig (ed), "Maritime Legacies and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 237

Book Title: Maritime Legacies and the Law

Editor(s): Forrest, Craig

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Legacy wrecks as memorials and maritime war graves

Number of pages: 35

Abstract/Description:

An emerging value of legacy wrecks is there use as memorials and the recognition of many legacy wrecks as maritime war graves. This chapter considers the nature of war memorials and the possible role that legacy wrecks might play in the evolving memorialisation of WWI. It also addresses the vexed question of recognising and protecting maritime war graves, and the attempts made to protect legacy wrecks, especially by the UK through the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.