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Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. This Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave. They belonged to the forces of Great Britain and Ireland and South Africa; the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces being commemorated on other memorials to the missing. The Memorial consists of a screen wall in three parts. The middle part of the screen wall is concave and carries stone panels on which names are carved. It is 26 feet high flanked by pylons 70 feet high. The Stone of Remembrance stands exactly between the pylons and behind it, in the middle of the screen, is a group in relief representing St George and the Dragon. The flanking parts of the screen wall are also curved and carry stone panels carved with names. Each of them forms the back of a roofed colonnade; and at the far end of each is a small building. The memorial was designed by J.R. Truelove, with sculpture by Ernest Gillick. It was unveiled by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Shaw on 4 August 1930.
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Died 1918
British Army S/23858 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 2nd Battalion
British Army S/23858 Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 10th Battalion
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 51049 Private Bedfordshire Regiment
British Army 51049 Private Hertfordshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army T4/059600 Driver Royal Army Service Corps
British Army 38912 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment
British Army 38912 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
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Born 1883
Died 1918
British Army 45938 Private West Yorkshire Regiment 12th (Service) Battalion
British Army 21st Reserve Brigade, at Blyth
British Army 45938 Private 50th Brigade,17th Division, V Corps 10th Entrenching Battalion
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Born 1882
Died 1918
British Army 40982 Private Royal Scots Fusiliers 1st Battalion
British Army Ayrshire Yeomanry 3rd Battalion
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Born 1882
Died 1918
British Army 617 Sapper Royal Engineers Wiltshire Fortress Company
British Army Private Wiltshire Regiment 3rd Battalion
British Army 305811 Private Tank Corps 4th Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 42470 Corporal Scottish Rifles
British Army 42470 Corporal Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1st Battalion
British Army 15699 Corporal Scots Fusiliers 6th / 7th Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 23483 Lincolnshire Regiment
British Army 201935 Lance-Corporal Scottish Rifles 5/6th Battalion
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Born 1900
Died 1918
British Army 58146 Private York and Lancaster Regiment 2/4th (Hallamshire) (T.F.) Battalion
More about Baden Methuen Saunders -
Born 1896
Royal Navy R/274 Royal Naval Division
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Born 1891
Died 1918
British Army 2224 Private Seaforth Highlanders 1/4th seaforth highland Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Seaforth Highlanders 4th reserve seaforth highland Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Seaforth Highlanders 4th Battalion
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Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 38987 Private East Yorkshire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 012201 Private Army Ordnance Corps
British Army GS/95957 Private Royal Fusiliers 7th Bn.
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Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army 22532 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 14th Battalion
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Born 1885
Died 1918
British Army 22-1751 Private Northumberland Fusiliers
British Army GS-79710 Private Royal Fusiliers 13th Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army 766414 Private London Regiment 1/28th (county of london) battalion, london regiment (artist Battalion
British Army 766414 Private London Regiment 2/28th (county of london) battalion, london regiment (artist Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 5496 Private Hertfordshire Regiment
British Army 266848 Private Bedfordshire Regiment
British Army 331043 Private Lancashire Fusiliers 10th Battalion.
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