The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is located about 20 miles North of Amiens on the site of Thiepval chateau, one of the original objectives on 1 July 1916 but which was not captured until the end of September. The memorial, faced with red brick and 150 feet high, is visible for miles around. It bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916.
The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was built between 1928 and 1932 and unveiled by the Prince of Wales, in the presence of the President of France, on 1 August 1932.
Lewisham Residents on this memorial include:
- Adams, John Amos
- Aldersley, Eustace
- Anstiss, Harry Sydney Augustus
- Ash, Sidney James
- Astington, Tom
- Avery, William Ernest
- Back, Erroll William Alfred
- Baker, Albert
- Balkwill, Charles Vince
- Ball, Frank Granville
- Banks, James
- Batch, Richard George
- Batchelor, William Harold
- Bax, Harold Stanley
- Baylis, Joseph Henry
- Beeley, John Edward
- Benns, Arthur Lionel
- Benzie, Walter
- Bicknell, Arthur Victor
- Bigg, Richard Maskell
- Blackburn, Arthur
- Blanchflower, Cecil
- Bowell, Ernest Philip
- Brodie, Stanley Gordon
- Brooke, Frank Washington
- Brown, Walter Stanley
- Brown, William John Henry
- Budgen, Alfred
- Bullen, George John Thomas
- Bulmer, Frank Stedman
- Burbridge, Edward Henry William
- BURROWS, Robert Henry
- Buscall, Alfred
- Buttle, Robert James
- Bygraves, James
- Cable, William Walter
- Carter, Stephen Charles
- Chandler, Henry Andrew
- Chapman, Charles Stirling
- Chesterton, William Francis
- Childs, William Henry
- Coffey, Wilfred Mortimer
- Cope, Leon Walter
- Coppack, Frank Victor
- Crisp, Harry
- Crockett, Samuel
- Crouch, Archibald James
- Cummings, Leonard Harold
- Cuthbertson, Frank Joseph
- Dadd,Edmund Hilton MC
- Davey, William Henry MC
- Dawe, Harry Edward
- Day, Reginald
- Dipple, John
- Dowding, George
- Doyne, Walter Lloyd
- Eames, Edward George
- Eastgate, James Smith
- Eburne, Julian Reginald
- Edney, George
- Falby, Edward Frederick
- Finch, James
- Ford, Edgar Allen
- Fordyce, William J.
- Foulger, Charles Frederick
- Fowler, James Alfred
- Frampton, Henry Joshua
- Furze, Alfred
- Gale, Frederick Charles
- Gatrell, Arthur
- Gerrish, Thomas Charles
- Gibbins, Sidney William
- Gifford, Harry William
- Going, Edward Bertram
- Gorbold, Sidney John
- Grounds, Keble
- Grover, George
- Groves, Reginald
- Hamilton, Wallace Bernard
- Harrild,Richard William Charles
- Hart, George Holmden
- Harvey, Frank Ernest
- Hayes, Alexander Henry
- Heath, John Oswald
- Hodges, Ernest Granville
- Hollman, Henry Frederick
- Houghton, John Sidney
- Howard, Stanley
- Hughes, Gordon MacGregor
- Humphries, William Henry James
- Ives, Vincent George
- Jones, John Myddleton
- Keeley George J
- Kennedy, John Gilbert
- Key, William Wilson
- King, David Taylor
- King, Donovan Hugh Vosper
- Lambert, Albert Edward
- Lane, James
- Law, Percival Charles
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