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:
- Mabson, William James
- Marriott, Charles James
- Maunton, Albert
- McDonald, Charles John James
- Mepstead, Percy Sydney
- Mepsted, Charles Walter
- Minuto, Theodore Joseph
- Moody, Henry Joseph
- Morgan, John W
- Mortleman, Charles Ibbetson
- Mulholland, Thomas John
- Murrell, William Robert James
- Nightingale, Henry J
- Noakes, Frederick Charles
- Notton, Frederick Walter
- Oates, Walter Thomas
- Paddon, Edwin Evens Cragg
- Partlett, Frederick Arthur
- Pennicard, Frederick Charles
- Petley, Hugh
- Pidoux, George Fairley
- Pigg, Bernard William
- Pittaway, Sydney George
- Playell, Arthur William
- Potter, William
- Powell, Charles Swan
- Preston, Douglas Frank
- Price, George Leslie
- Pring, Basil Crompton
- Quinn, Arthur John
- Quinn, Edward
- Richardson, Alec Nelson
- Riminton, Percy Henry
- Rist, George Richard
- Rofe, Thomas William
- Sadgrove, James Thomas
- Salisbury, Walter Frederick
- Saltmarsh, Oliver Norman
- Scull, Herbert Hilton
- Shearman, Hubert Warner
- Sheen, William Francis
- Simper, Albert William
- Smith, Charles Henry
- Spalding, Albert Goodwill
- Sparkes, William
- Spelman, Wilfred Cubitt
- Springbett, Harold
- Starling, Frederick Leslie
- Stevens, Alfred Norman
- Stewart, Edward Henry Cecil
- Still, Reginald Sydney Hewitt
- Street, Cecil
- Swainson, Francis Gibbon
- Talbot, Norman Hale
- Thorndyke, Charles John
- Thornton, Douglas Saville
- Trask, Sydney Robert
- Tumber, Edward
- Tyler, William
- Underwood, Edmund Poole
- Wagner, John
- Ward, Dacre Stanley
- Weston, George Primrose MC
- Weston, Victor Claude
- Wilkinson, Gordon Frederick Noble
- Wilson, Henry William
- Wood, Thomas Victor
- Woolmer, Stanley Herbert France
- Yeomans, Stuart Coulthard
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