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...
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Thiepval (French pronunciation: [tjɛpval]; Picard: Tièbvo) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Thiepval is located...
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location of Farr's grave is unknown, but his name is included on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. The historian William Philpott describes Farr's death...
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The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was the first large offensive of the Reserve Army (Lieutenant General Hubert Gough), during the Battle of the Somme on the...
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Ulster Tower (redirect from Ulster Tower Thiepval)
The Ulster Tower, located in Thiepval, France, is Northern Ireland's National War Memorial. It was one of the first memorials to be erected on the Western...
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of Riyadh in 1902 Cinquantenaire Arcade (1905), Brussels Thiepval Memorial (1932), Thiepval Siegestor (1850), Munich Fusiliers' Arch (1907), Dublin Arco...
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of Pozières Memorial Memorial to York and Lancasters near Serre. Inscription on Thiepval Memorial. One of the roundels on Thiepval Memorial. These roundels...
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Ypres and the Thiepval memorial on the Somme, were also constructed. The Liberty Memorial, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a memorial dedicated to...
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Notre Dame de Lorette. During the attack, the French 1st Moroccan Division briefly captured the height of the ridge, where the Vimy memorial is currently...
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Memorial Commonwealth monument to the missing: Thiepval Memorial and French-Commonwealth military cemetery: Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery Czechoslovakian military...
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battles-within-the-battle of the Somme, including actions at: Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval Ridge, the Ancre Heights, the Ancre as well as a small role in providing...
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Battle of Verdun in World War I. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mémorial de Verdun. Sherman, Daniel J. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France...
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Britain's national memorial to the two world wars) and many other cemeteries and memorials for the IWGC, including the Thiepval Memorial (completed 1932)...
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pushed for the museum to be built, wrote "Ce Mémorial a été édifié par les survivants de Verdun, en souvenir de leurs camarades tombés dans la bataille pour...
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Douaumont Ossuary (category World War I memorials in France)
Somme Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme World War I memorials Jean-Paul Labourdette, Collectif, Dominique Auzias - Guide des lieux de mémoire...
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on 1 July, it remains Memorial Day in Newfoundland and Labrador. Eric Bell, 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Thiepval — posthumous. Geoffrey...
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36th (Ulster) Division (section Ulster Memorial Tower)
division had suffered over 5,000 casualties and 2,069 deaths. The Thiepval Memorial commemorates the 1916 Anglo-French offensive on the Somme and the...
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896 names inscribed on the Menin Gate and the 73,357 on the Thiepval Memorial. Civic memorials in Britain and France typically had names inscribed; in Britain...
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In France, the bleuet de France is the symbol of memory for, and solidarity with, veterans, victims of war, widows, and orphans, similar to the Commonwealth...
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and 200 yd (180 m) wide, built in stages since 1915, near the village of Thiepval and overlooking the River Ancre. It formed part of the German defensive...
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situated a memorial to the 29th British Division, the division of which the Newfoundland Regiment was a part. Lieutenant-General Beauvoir De Lisle, wartime...
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The Mametz Wood Memorial commemorates an engagement of the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army during the First Battle of the Somme in France in...
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Lochnagar mine (category Monuments and memorials in Somme (department))
Thiepval, almost two miles from La Boisselle and later described the early morning scene in his book Sagittarius Rising (1977), We were over Thiepval...
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to Stuff Redoubt (Staufenfeste), close to the German fortifications at Thiepval. It was the longest such German trench on the Western Front. Attacked several...
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Ministry perspective also the Thiepval Memorial. The file contains a selection of press cuttings covering the Arrras and Thiepval unveilings. The file notes...
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The Delville Wood South African National Memorial is a World War I memorial, located in Delville Wood, near the commune of Longueval, in the Somme department...
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the south-west of the site of the later Thiepval Memorial, north-east of the La Boisselle–Authuille and Thiepval–Aveluy crossroads. The German front line...
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Battle of Pozières (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
and east of the village, in a position to menace the German bastion of Thiepval from the rear. The Australian official historian Charles Bean wrote that...
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Battle of the Somme (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Graves Commission commemorate the battle on 1 July each year, at the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. For their efforts on the first day of...
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Glade of the Armistice (redirect from Alsace-Lorraine Memorial)
Steven. "Compiègne". Retrieved 7 December 2013. Media related to Clairière de l'Armistice at Wikimedia Commons Mémorial de l'Armistice Official site...
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