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Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. The Le Touret Memorial commemorates over 13,400 British soldiers who were killed in this sector of the Western Front from the beginning of October 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos in late September 1915 and who have no known grave. The Memorial takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open rectangular court. The names of those commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by regiment, rank and alphabetically by surname within the rank. Almost all of the men commemorated on the Memorial served with regular or territorial regiments from across the United Kingdom and were killed in actions that took place along a section of the front line that stretched from Estaires in the north to Grenay in the south. This part of the Western Front was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting of the first year of the war, including the battles of La Bassée (10 October – 2 November 1914), Neuve Chapelle (10 – 12 March 1915), Aubers Ridge (9 – 10 May 1915), and Festubert (15 – 25 May 1915). Soldiers serving with Indian and Canadian units who were killed in this sector in 1914 and ’15 whose remains were never identified are commemorated on the Neuve Chapelle and Vimy memorials, while those who fell during the northern pincer attack at the Battle of Aubers Ridge are commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
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Born 1875
Died 1915
British Army R5752 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1915
British Army 1120 Private Cameron Highlanders
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Born 1890
Died 1915
British Army 12728 Corporal Northamptonshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1887
Died 1915
British Army S/9512 Private Gordon Highlanders 3rd Battalion
British Army S/9512 Private Gordon Highlanders 2nd Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 7580 Private Scots Guards
British Army 7580 Lance Corporal Scots Guards 2nd Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1915
British Army 2686 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 2686 Private The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1/4th battalion
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Born 1887
Died 1914
British Army 7016 Private Wiltshire Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 7016 Private Wiltshire Regiment 1st.Battalion.
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Born 1887
Died 1915
British Army G/3825 Private The Queen's Regiment
British Army G/3825 Private The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
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Born 1884
Died 1915
British Army 48 Serjeant Liverpool Regiment 5th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1915
British Army 975 Private Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1915
British Army 1256 Private Gordon Highlanders 1/6th gordon highland Battalion
British Army 1256 Private Gordon Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1881
Died 1915
British Army R5819 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Battalion
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Born 1880
Died 1915
British Army 10964 Private Liverpool Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 10964 Private The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 3rd Battalion
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Born 1886
Died 1914
British Army 7944 Private 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers
British Army 7944 Rifleman Royal Irish Rifles 2nd Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1915
British Army 3/7876 Private Yorkshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 7681 Private Attached Royal Scots 8th Battalion
British Army 7681 Private Highland Light Infantry 8th (Lanark) Battalion (Territorial).
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Born 1893
Died 1914
British Army 4391 Private Royal Irish Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1915
British Army 1593 Private Cameron Highlanders 4th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1914
British Army 3/7127 Private Seaforth Highlanders 1st Battalion
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