Thiepval taken from the site of Brock's Benefit Trench east of Mesnil THIEPVAL MEMORIAL 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 & 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 &,x2018;They sleep, many of them on the uplands of Picardy. They asked for no reward, no sunlit fields of heaven. They played a man&,x2019;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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