In July 1932 Ware urged R. B. Bennett to support an Imperial economic committee outside the British Treasury 's control . He was the first to seriously propose something of the kind , submitting a draft charter for the establishment of the " Imperial Economic Commission " , which would function as an economic general staff for the empire . The proposal gained little support . He published an account of the work of the commission in 1937 called '' The Immortal Heritage '' . He served as chairman of the National Education Union , was an honorary associate at the Royal Institute of British Architects , '' '' and a director of the journal N '' ineteenth Century and After '' . As a director of the journal , he made the decision to appoint Arnold Wilson as editor in 1936 and insisted on his removal for poor coverage of the Spanish Civil War in 1938 . He was an adviser to the 1937 Imperial Conference . Ware also served the county of Gloucestershire in various capacities , '' '' including as president of the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council from 1940 to 1948 , chairman of the executive committee of the Parents ' National Educational Union in 1939 , and Chairman of the Gloucestershire Branch of Council for the Preservation of Rural England . The outbreak of the Second World War saw Ware recalled from retirement to serve as Director-General of Graves Registration and Enquiries at the War Office on 30 August 1939 . On 3 September 1939 he was granted an emergency commission with the honorary rank of major-general . He also continued in his role as Vice-Chairman of the Commission . Ware ceased to be Director-General in 1944 . In failing health , he resigned as Vice-Chairman of the Commission in 1948 . Ware died the following year on 28 April 1949 in Barnwood House Hospital , Gloucester . He was buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard , Amberley on 2 May . His grave has a CWGC-style headstone . There are also memorial tablets to him in the Warrior 's Chapel at Westminster Abbey and in Gloucester Cathedral . The road ' Boulevard Fabian Ware ' in Bayeux , the location of Bayeux War Cemetery , is named in honour of Fabian Ware
1937 Imperial Conference
1937 Imperial Conference
Fabian Ware