Thiepval Memorial, France

Photographs Copyright © Lynda Smith 2002

Nothing can prepare you for your first sight of the Thiepval Memorial. Set on the top of a hill, it can be seen from many miles away, and the nearer you get the more awesome it becomes.

It is almost impossible to comprehend that here are commemorated over 73,000 people, lost without trace in the Flanders mud.

A visitor centre is planned for the Memorial. See http://www.thiepval.org.uk/

Bedfordshire Regiment Inscriptions

30 November 2002