The Thiepval Memorial, better known as the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, is an important war memorial which is dedicated to the 72,246 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War, and it is located in the vicinity of the village of Thiepval, withing the northern part of the French Republic.Designed by the English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and it consists of a series of, more precisely interlocking arches of four sizes, which are increased in height and proportionate width.
