Muerrisch Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 Please does anyone have a photo of RG's headstone/ memorial/ monument? Or know of an illustration in a book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 Might be difficult. Isn’t he buried in a anonymous pauper’s grave in Mallorca? Regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleur Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 More info available from the Robert Graves Society http://www.robertgraves.org/ I am sure - not having time to check up properly at the mo, that Marco is right about Graves' grave. Have you read the book, Dear Robert, Dear Spike? It is the correspondance between Graves and Spike Milligan and is fascinating. Graves rarely spoke about the war but chose to discuss it with Spike as they had shared experiences. If you haven't read you really should, it is a terrific book. Hope that the RGS can give you the info you are searching for Fleur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleur Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...Robert%20Graves Here you go, info you wer searching for, LB1418 Fleur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 Try http://www.findagrave.com/ This website has thousands of records and photographs of graves. People can also submit their own contributions. Gwyn Just checked the thread - I see Fleur got there first! Unfortunately there isn't a picture of the grave itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 Err.... the reference to http://www.findagrave.com/ isn't an answer to the question since it does not contain a photograph of the grave (if there is one). Not? I will have a look tonight in a biography I have of him because I believe there is a picture in it of the aprox. spot where he lies. Regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 29 August , 2003 Author Share Posted 29 August , 2003 Curses. Nice site, several photos RG alive, none of headstone or indeed pauper's grave. Thanks for info. so far. He was buried, I suppose, as opposed to being cremated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 There is no headstone but I read somewhere that his grave is marked by a concrete slab with the words "Robert Graves, Poeta, 1895-1985" written in by someone's finger before the concrete went off. I believe lots of the graves in the churchard at Deya (Deia) are marked like this. I'll try and find the book and see if there's a picture. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 29 August , 2003 Author Share Posted 29 August , 2003 Thanks tom, standing by. Patiently. Pacing up and down muttering ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 Sorry, no luck. I found the book but the picture I was thinking of is of Sassoon's grave. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Seymour Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 No photograph, but found some facts on the following web-sites including the inscription. http://www.balearnet.com/mallorca/t10deia.htm Graves was hardly the first to discover Deia. An 1878 guidebook noted its 'collection of strange and eccentric foreigners' and it has stayed that way ever since. Climb the Carrer es Puig, Deia's only real street, passing ceramic Stations of the Cross, to reach the parish church and the small cemetery where Graves is buried. His tombstone, like many others, is inscribed in simple handwriting set into the drying concrete - Robert Graves, Poeta, 1895-1985 if you want to know more, read Wild Olives - Life In Majorca with Robert Graves by his son William Graves. http://www.ontoeurope.com/features/2003/ma...3/mallorca.html Drive along the coast to Deya, where you'll see mountains to your right and the deep blue of the Mediterranean dropping down on your left. The village of Deya was home to writer and poet Robert Grave. He is buried in the local cemetery and his family still live in the village along with a number of rich and famous who have been drawn there over the years. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary Clarke Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 'if you want to know more, read Wild Olives - Life In Majorca with Robert Graves by his son William Graves.' I have a copy of Wild Olives by William Graves but unfortunately it is devoid of photographs; Graves grave, or otherwise. 'Next morning we buried Father in the cemetery, a stone's throw from the Pasada. Only Lucia, Ramon, Elena and I and a couple of friends were present as the coffin was lowered into the grave. It had been dug into the hard soil of the Puig, beneeth a tall cypress tree: a fitting place for him. Once buried, Salud Carrillo's husband, Toni, who worked for Pep Salas, made a simple cement plaque and, while it was still wet, inscribed on it: Robert Graves Poet 24-7-1895 to 7-12-1985 RIP' Hope that might be of help. Rosemary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted 29 August , 2003 Share Posted 29 August , 2003 Here you go Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 30 August , 2003 Author Share Posted 30 August , 2003 Fantastic ....... absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much everybody. This website is the biz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle bill Posted 30 August , 2003 Share Posted 30 August , 2003 I have to agree with lb1418. The knowledge and dare I say 'tit-bits' seen on this site is absolutely incredible. What a moving picture. RESPECT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 9 November , 2004 Share Posted 9 November , 2004 I visited Robert Grave's grave last Friday and am posting a photograph I took at the time. The inscription written on the cross that had been left on the grave read "Once a Fusilier". The setting of the graveyard on top of the hill in Deia, next to the church, is beautiful, and yes, as I have read on more than one occasion, the location reminds me of Harlech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salientguide Posted 9 November , 2004 Share Posted 9 November , 2004 Searched for ages knew I had a photo somewhere and guess what---couldnt find it but the same as those shown. The setting is unusual in Mallorca the church and graveyard are the highest part of the small town with wonderful views around. The burial is neither anonymous nor a paupers but is marked as shown by a simple concrete with the name date and the simple wrd "poeta"-poet marked on it. Graves house Cala Llun is still there the last one out of the village towards cala de Deia the small cove where apparently Graves went down to bathe every day. He must have had a fantastic physique as was always very active even after his wounds in 1916, always as strong as an ox. The house is still in the hands of his family and there is a bronze sculpture of his head in the garden Reading his biographies I am convinced he was greatly shell shocked and suffering from what we would now call Post traumatic shock syndrome, for many years probably for the rest of his life. Now where did I put those photos?? salientguide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Posted 9 November , 2004 Share Posted 9 November , 2004 A view from the Deia churchyard towards the sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john w. Posted 9 November , 2004 Share Posted 9 November , 2004 A great thread, having read Goodbye to all that, I was entralled by it, just another piece Thanks for that John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 9 December , 2004 Author Share Posted 9 December , 2004 Stunning photographs, and a moving tale. This thread illustrates why the site is so important to serious researchers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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