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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 1120 Private Cameron Highlanders
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Born 1893
Died 1915
British Army 1846 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 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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Died 1915
British Army 1939 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion.
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Died 1914
British Army 8419 Private Royal Scots 2nd Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army 1417 Private Cameron Highlanders 4th Bn
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Born 1890
Died 1914
British Army 8734 Private Northamptonshire Regiment 2nd. Bn.
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Died 1915
British Army 3/3506 Lance/Corporal Royal Highlanders 1st Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1915
British Army 3/7876 Private Yorkshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1915
British Army R5753 Private King's Royal Rifle Corps
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Born 1896
Died 1915
British Army S/5507 Private Seaforth Highlanders 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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Died 1915
British Army 13377 Private Northamptonshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1915
British Army 11735 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1915
British Army 1109 Private Gordon Highlanders
British Army 1109 Private Gordon Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army R5954 Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army S/6961 Private Seaforth Highlanders 1st Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army 3/7124 Private Seaforth Highlanders 1st Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 3748 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion.
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Died 1915
British Army 9598 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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