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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 1890
Died 1915
British Army 6855 Private Scots Guards
British Army 6855 Lance Corporal Scots Guards 1st Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1915
British Army 11843 Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Battalion
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Born 1889
Died 1914
British Army 8736 Private Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry 1st Battalion
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Born 1893
Died 1914
British Army 8976 Private Norfolk Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 8976 Private Norfolk Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1915
British Army 7915 Lance Corporal Highland Light Infantry 8th highland Battalion
British Army 7915 Private Highland Light Infantry 8th highland Battalion
British Army 7915 Lance Corporal Highland Light Infantry 8th Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1914
British Army Second Lieutenant Bedfordshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant General Reserve of Officers, Infantry
British Army Lieutenant Bedfordshire Regiment
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Born 1885
Died 1915
British Army 59 Private Gordon Highlanders
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Born 1896
Died 1915
British Army S/5507 Private Seaforth Highlanders 1st Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1915
British Army 18372 Private Wiltshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1915
British Army Captain King's (Liverpool Regiment) 8th (Irish) Battalion (Territorial)
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Died 1915
British Army 13377 Private Northamptonshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1915
British Army R5753 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps
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Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army 2687 Private Gordon Highlanders 7th Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1915
British Army 818 Serjeant Gordon Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1914
British Army 9061 Private Dorsetshire Regiment
British Army 9061 Private Dorsetshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1889
Died 1915
British Army R5851 Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Battalion
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Born 1874
Died 1915
British Army GSSR/809 Private Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army GS/809 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1885
Died 1914
British Army 7013 Private Wiltshire Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 7013 Private Wiltshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 3/10098 Private Northamptonshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army S/6961 Private Seaforth Highlanders 1st Battalion
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