The Battle of The Somme

To get the most out of your trip, hire a private guide to show you The Thiepval Memorial located in the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France.

The war memorial is dedicated to the 72,195 missing or identified British and South American men who died in the First World War during the Battles of the Somme between 1915 and 1918. The memorial was built between 1928 and 1932. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and it remains the largest British battle memorial in the world.

Taking a private tour with a trained guide to The Thiepval Memorial ensures you see the inscription located on an inside surface of the war memorial reads; Here are recorded names of officers and men of the British Armies who fell on the Somme battlefields between July 1915 and March 1918 but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death.

A private tour guide can show you things at The Thiepval Memorial like the stone piers that are engraved with standard upper-case lettering, listing the names of the men who died in the war. Bodies have been discovered on the former battlefield since the monument was built. Those that are identified are given a funeral with full military honors and their names are removed from the memorial. This decision was made to keep the monument as one just for soldiers that are missing or unidentified.