Sadly, the immediate Memorial area was closed for work of some kind, although a few renegades in our group ignored the signs and went up close anyway!
A new Visitor Centre has been opened since I was last here, which gave everyone a more complete appreciation. The light coloured panels at the bottom of each piece of the Memorial contain the names of the Missing, over 73,000 of them. Below is a combined British & French cemetery to commemorate the joint action in The Somme.
I don't particularly like the Memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, as it seems out of proportion.
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