Close-up of the stone of Remembrance at the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme for the missing in Thiepval, France

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The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen 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. A visitors' centre opened in 2004. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".

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Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: 8 rue de l'ancre, 80300 Thiepval, Somme, Picardy, France, Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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