The Somme Thiepval memorial
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a major war memorial to 72,191 missing British and South African men who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918 with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. The Memorial was built approximately 200 metres to the south-east of the former Thiepval Château, which was located on lower ground, by the side of Thiepval by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest British battle memorial in the world. The Battle of the Somme was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French against the Germans. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the River Somme and its tributary the L'Ancre in northern France. The battle was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed. Today the area has many cemeteries and memorials on the sites of different parts of the battle.
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Location: The Somme France
Photo credit: © CHRIS LEWINGTON / Alamy / Afripics
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