Thiepval Memorial, Somme World War One battlefield, France
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3295 x 5202 px | 27.9 x 44 cm | 11 x 17.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Thiepval Somme FranceMore information:
The Thiepval Memorial commemorates by name some 72, 000 men who fell in the Somme sector up to 20 March 1918 and who have no known grave. Designed by Edwin Lutyens and unveiled by Prince of Wales in 1932. It is the largest of the Commonwealth's memorials and stands on the site of one of the most heavily defended German positions to be attacked on the first day of the battle when Commonwealth casualties - killed, wounded, missing - numbered numbered more than 60, 000. The Thiepval Anglo-French cemetery symbolizes the Allied effort and contains the graves of 300 Commonwealth and 300 French soldiers, most of them unidentified.