The Thiepval Memorial and Anglo-French Cemetery

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The Thiepval Memorial and Anglo-French Cemetery is the largest of the Commonwealth Memorials and commemorates, by name, some 72,000 men woh fell in the Somme Sector up to 20th March 1918 and who have no known grave. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled by the Prince of Wales in 1932. The memorial 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 and missing numbered more than 60,000. The Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery symbolising the Allied effort in the war, contains the graves of 300 Commonwealth and 300 French soldiers, the majority of whom are unidentified.

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Size: 4288px × 2848px
Location: The Thiepval Memorial and Anglo-French Cemetery, France
Photo credit: © Andrew Kanharn / Alamy / Afripics
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