 Around 587,000 graves had been identified and 559,000 soldiers listed as having no known grave by 1918.On 7 October 1918 Ware was given the temporary rank of major-general as director-general of the DGRE.In May 1917, architect Edwin Lutyens wrote to Ware, urging for 'Great War Stones' to be placed in the cemeteries that would be "great stone[s] of fine proportion twelve feet long set fair or finely wrought."