Place:Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

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Name	Thiepval Memorial
Type	Cemetery
Coordinates	50.051°N 2.686°E
Located in	Somme, 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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For more information, see the FR Wikipedia article Mémorial de Thiepval.

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Categories: Somme, France | Cemeteries of Somme, France | Military Cemeteries of France