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Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, from the first day of the Battle of Loos to the end of the war. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice.
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Born 1876
Died 1915
British Army 1832 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1918
British Army 266466 Lance Corporal Seaforth Highlanders 6th Battalion
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Born 1881
Died 1915
British Army 3/3595 Private York and Lancaster Regiment
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Born 1886
Died 1918
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Born 1872
Died 1915
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Born 1881
Died 1915
British Army 10465 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1871
Died 1915
British Army 1970 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1884
Died 1915
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