THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
UNIDENTIFIED DEAD. <r,lOH OCR OWN CORaBBPO.NDE.VT.) LONDON, February t"'lie Prince of Wales, in the presence of the President of the French Kepublic. will unveil* on Whit Monday (May 16th), the great memorial at Thiepval to 73,307 officers and men who fell in the battles of the Somme and whose graves are unknown. Altogether about 82,000 have no known graves, but Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, and India have memorials of their own. The Thiepval monument carries nil the names i rom the United Kingdom and South Africa with the exception of the airmen, who are commemorated at Arras. About 150,000 soldiers of the British Empire fell in the Sommo area before March 21st, 1918. The monument stands on a site of nearly forty acres of State Iwd, '" the communes of Thiepval and Authmle, between the two villages, but considerably nearer to Thiepval. The total height of the monument is 1-*J feet, and its base is 123 hv 140 feet.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20495, 14 March 1932, Page 3
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