Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing from the following battles, which were fought outside the Ypres Salient in the area around Ploegsteert: The memorial also commemorates the names of three recipients of the Victoria Cross who have no known grave: Since 7 June 1999, the "Comité du Memorial de Ploegsteert" has arranged for the Last Post to be played at the memorial on the first Friday of each month. Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial in Belgium for missing soldiers of World War I. It commemorates men from the Allied Powers who fought
Pozières Memorial 8 August. The memorial forms the perimeter walls of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery, which principally contains the bodies of men killed during the Battle of Pozières and the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The memorial commemorates the missing of the British Fifth Army, and to a lesser extent of the Fourth Army (re-formed to turn the tide of battle following the virtual disintegration of the Fifth Army). The original intention was that the memorial at Pozières should commemorate the missing of the Third Army, while those of the Fifth Army would be commemorated at Saint-Quentin, at the