| Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
 The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme | |
| For the dead of the Battles of the Somme of the First World War with no known grave | |
| Unveiled | 1 August 1932 by Edward, Prince of Wales |
| Location | 50°3′2″N 2°41′9″E / 50.05056°N 2.68583°E near Thiepval, northern France |
| Designed by | Sir Edwin Lutyens |
| Commemorated | 73,337 |
Here are recorded names of officers and men of the British Armies who fell on the Somme battlefields July 1915 February 1918 but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death. | |
| Official name | Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, vi |
| Designated | 2023 (45th session) |
| Reference no. | 1567-SE03 |
| Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. | |
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.[1] It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. A visitors' centre opened in 2004.[2] Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century".[3]
- ^ "Thiepval Memorial". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
- ^ Stamp 2006, p. 165
- ^ Stamp 2006, p. 185