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Loos Memorial

WWI CWGC memorial in Pas-de-Calais, France

Summary

WWI CWGC memorial in Pas-de-Calais, France

Field	Value
name	Loos Memorial
country	Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
image	[[File:Dud corner cemetery-Loos memorial-2.jpg	300px]]
caption	View of the cemetery with the apses and Cross of Sacrifice of the memorial in the background
commemorates	British and Commonwealth forces
unveiled	4 August 1930
coordinates
designer	Sir Herbert Baker (architect)
Sir Charles Wheeler (sculptor)
inscription	To the glory of God and in memory of 20,598 officers and men of the forces of the British Empire who fell in the Battles of Loos and Béthune and other actions in this neighbourhood, whose names are here recorded but to whom the fortunes of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death.
source
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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-PC12

Sir Charles Wheeler (sculptor) The Loos Memorial is a World War I memorial forming the sides and rear of Dud Corner Cemetery, located near the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, in the Pas-de-Calais département of France. The memorial lists 20,610 names of British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave who were killed in the area during and after the Battle of Loos, which started on 25 September 1915. This memorial covers the same sector of the front as the Le Touret Memorial, with each memorial commemorating the dead either side of the date of the start of the Battle of Loos.

Designed by Sir Herbert Baker, the sculptures were by Sir Charles Wheeler. The memorial was unveiled on 4 August 1930 by General Sir Nevil Macready. Macready served as Adjutant-General of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from the outbreak of the war to February 1916, and then served as Adjutant-General to the Forces until a few months before the end of the war in November 1918.

Notable commemoratees

Three posthumous Victoria Cross recipients are commemorated on this memorial under their respective regiments:

Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Douglas-Hamilton
Private George Peachment
Second Lieutenant Frank Wearne

Also commemorated on this memorial are:

Scots rugby international Second Lieutenant Walter Michael Dickson
English first-class cricketer Arthur Edwards.
England rugby international Second Lieutenant Douglas Lambert.
British Member of Parliament Second Lieutenant The Hon. Charles Thomas Mills.
poet Captain Charles Sorley
Wales rugby international Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Garnons Williams.

References

[http://www.johnradcliffe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/textfiles/KJ228.txt John Kipling, "Rudyard Kipling and the Battle of Loos"] {{webarchive. link. (2012-08-02 , ''Kipling Journal'', December 1983, pp. 8–9)
[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ggfrloos.htm] List of Victoria Cross Holders on the Loos Memorial, France.
[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2941217/DICKSON,%20WALTER%20MICHAEL] CWGC Casualty Record, Walter Michael Dickson.
[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2941819/ARTHUR CORBETT EDWARDS] CWGC Casualty Record, Arthur Edwards.
[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/733766/LAMBERT,%20DOUGLAS] CWGC Casualty Record, Douglas Lambert.
[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/736282/MILLS,%20The%20Hon%20CHARLES%20THOMAS] CWGC Casualty Record, The Hon Charles Thomas Mills.
[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1769484/SORLEY,%20CHARLES%20HAMILTON] CWGC Casualty Record, Charles Hamilton Sorley.
[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1763505 Casualty details—Garnons Williams, Richard Davies], [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]. Retrieved on 16 April 2009.

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