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.

This huge memorial remembers 72,090 British and Commonwealth men who died in the battle of the Somme and have no other grave of marker.  Thiepval Chateau was the site of several medical aid stations during the war and many bodies where buried around it, which is why this site, 200 metres south east of the former chateau, was chosen for the memorial.  Built between 1928 and 1932, the 46metre high Portland brick memorial had to be built with six metre thick foundations because the ground below it is so unstable because of all the tunnels that were dug below it.  It's the largest British war memorial in the world. 

Beside the memorial is a Royal British Legion visitor's centre.  

Written by  Toby Bright.

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