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Cambrai Memorial to the Missing

Memorial in Cambrai

Summary

Memorial in Cambrai

Field	Value
name	Cambrai Memorial
country	Commonwealth War Graves Commission
image	[[File:Louverval Mémorial 5.jpg	300px]]
caption	Memorial to the missing at Louverval military cemetery
commemorates	soldiers missing in the area during World War I
unveiled	4 August 1930
coordinates
nearest_town	Doignies, France
designer	H Chalton Bradshaw
inscription	To the Glory of God and to the enduring memory of 7048 Officers and Men of the forces of the British Empire who fell at the Battle of Cambrai 20 Nov—3 Dec 1917 but who have no known grave. Their names are here recorded.
source
embedded	{{designation list	embed=yes
designation1	WHS
designation1_offname	Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
designation1_type	Cultural
designation1_criteria	i, ii, vi
designation1_date	2023 (45th session)
designation1_number	1567-ND03

The Cambrai Memorial to the Missing (sometimes referred to as the Louverval Memorial) is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial for the missing soldiers of World War I who fought in the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front.

Foundation

Entrance pylon at Louverval Military Cemetery on 24 November 2017 shortly before a Drumhead Service by the Royal Tank Regiment marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Cambrai. The memorial to the missing is in the background.

The memorial stands at one end of Louverval Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, which was founded by Commonwealth troops in April 1917 on the site of Louverval Chateau in northern France.

The memorial lists the 7,048 missing soldiers of the United Kingdom and South Africa who died at the Battle of Cambrai and have no known graves.

The memorial was designed by H. Chalton Bradshaw, who also designed the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium, with sculpture by Charles Sargeant Jagger.

It was unveiled on 4 August 1930 by Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Ridley Vaughan.

Louverval102.jpg|Trench periscope Louverval101.jpg|Stretcher bearers

Notable names

The memorial holds the names of seven recipients of the Victoria Cross who have no known grave.

Private George William Burdett Clare
Private Frederick George Dancox
2nd Lt James Samuel Emerson
Major Frederick Henry Johnson
Captain Allastair Malcolm Cluny McReady-Diarmid
Captain Walter Napleton Stone
Captain Richard William Leslie Wain

References

Baker, Chris. (2014). "The Cambrai Operations: November-December 1917". The Long, Long Trail: The British Army of 1914-1918.
(2015). "Cambrai Memorial, Louverval". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
(2015). "Louverval Military Cemetery, Doignies". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
(2011). "The Cambrai Battlefields: Louverval Memorial to the Missing". World War One Battlefields.
"CWGC Memorials". Malvern Remembers.
(2015). "Ploegsteert Memorial". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
(2014). "Names of Victoria Cross holders on the Cambrai Memorial, France". Victoria Cross.org.uk.

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