Thiepval Memorial

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 / 50.05056; 2.68583 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.
UNESCO World Heritage Site
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]