Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme near the village of Thiepval, Picardie in France.

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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. The inscription of names on the memorial is reserved for those missing, or unidentified, soldiers who have no known grave. A large inscription on an internal surface of the memorial reads: Here are recorded names of officers and men of the British Armies who fell on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and March 1918 but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death.

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Size: 4288px × 2848px
Photo credit: © Tim Sambrook / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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