The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme - 1914-1918 bearing British and French flags.

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The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme battlefields bears the names of 72,194 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces. Over 90 percent of those commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial died in the 1916 Battles of the Somme between July and November 1916. A cemetery with equal numbers of French & Commonwealth graves has been laid out at the foot of the Thiepval Memorial. The cemetery represents the shared sacrifice of these two nations in the 1914-1918 war.

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Size: 4821px × 3214px
Location: Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Somme, France.
Photo credit: © Alun Jenkins / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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