Who was the architect of the Thiepval War Memorial to the Missing of the Somme?
Thiepval Memorial Thiepval Memorial 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. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. A visitors' centre opened in 2004. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century". The Memorial was built approximately to the south-east of the former Thiepval Château, which was located on lower
Battle of Thiepval Ridge three months later, the high ground on the point of the Thiepval Spur was selected to be the location of the Anglo-French memorial to the "missing of the Somme". The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is dedicated to the men who were killed and whose bodies were never recovered, during the fighting in the vicinity from 1916 to 1918. The piers of the memorial bear the names of over soldiers, who were killed on the Somme battlefields ""but to whom the fortunes of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death"". Battle