Thiepval Memorial - Somme Battlefield
Thiepval Memorial, Somme Battlefield - Memorial to the Missing. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944). Largest British war memorial stands almost 50m high. Also Delhi Viceroy Palace - Serre, 2 - Cenotaph. Many nearby cemeteries were moved so as not to distract from impact It records 72, 085 names of those UK and SA soldiers who died on Somme and have no-known grave July 1916 - Mar 20 1918. 90% of these come from 1st Somme Jly-Nov 1916. Empire mssing: Australians - Villers-Bretonneux New Zealand - Longeuval Canada - Vimy Ridge Newfoundland - Beaumont Hamel India - Neuve Chapelle As recognition of the fact that French donated so much land for cemeteries it is joint Anglo-French cemetery with 300 from each nation here interred They sleep, many of them on the uplands of Picardy. They asked for no reward, no sunlit fields of heaven. They played a man's part, and held their heads high, till Death came in a roaring whirlwind and more one little hour was played. Yet perhaps, as they sleep, they hear a voice across the ages - Well Done (Charles Douie - The Weary Road')
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