Thiepval Memorial

Acknowledgement

Thanks to the following, for their help and assistance with information for these pages, Peter Francis (Commonwealth War Graves Commission), photographs reproduced with the kind permission of Tony Nicholson.

 

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 ŠTony Nicholson 2001

The Thiepval Memorial was built between 1928 - 1932 and commemorates 72,085 men who died in the area of the Somme upto 20th March 1918, many of whom have no known grave, 90% of the names on the Memorial died during the battle of the Somme between July to November 1916.

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 ŠTony Nicholson 2001

As well as being a Memorial to the 'Missing', it is also a Battle Memorial, commemorating the Anglo - French offensive on the Somme in 1916, in further recognition of the allied endeavours an Anglo - French cemetery was laid out in front of the Memorial which contains 300 Commonwealth and 300 French soldiers, many of whom are unknown.

 

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 ŠTony Nicholson 2001

 

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