Friday, 12 September 2025

Op La Boisselle - Thiepval

 The Thiepval Memorial bears the names 72,331 soldiers from Britain and South Africa who have no known grave. It commemorates those who died  in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918,   over 90% of whom were lost during the Somme Battles between July and November 1916.

Thiepval Memorial | CWGC

Northumbrian Gunner: Somme 2023 - Thiepval 

Recorded on the memorial are 1,426 Tyneside Scots of whom 778 lost their lives on the 1st July 1916.

Thiepval Memorial IJ

Thiepval Memorial


Thiepval Memorial

Thiepval Memorial
Stone of Remembrance

Thiepval Memorial
French and British Cemeteries

Thiepval Memorial
British and French Cemeteries