The Loos Memorial is a World War I war 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 Herbert Baker, the sculptures were by Sir Charles Wheeler. The memorial was unveiled on 4 August 1930 by General 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
[[1] List of Victoria Cross Holders on the Loos Memorial, France.] under their respective regiments:
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Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Douglas-Hamilton
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Private George Peachment
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Second Lieutenant Frank Wearne
Also commemorated on this memorial are:
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Scots rugby international Second Lieutenant Walter Michael Dickson
[[2] CWGC Casualty Record, Walter Michael Dickson.]
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English first-class cricketer Arthur Edwards.
[ CORBETT EDWARDS CWGC Casualty Record, Arthur Edwards.]
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England rugby international Second Lieutenant Douglas Lambert.
[[4] CWGC Casualty Record, Douglas Lambert.]
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British Member of Parliament Second Lieutenant The Hon. Charles Thomas Mills.
[[5] CWGC Casualty Record, The Hon Charles Thomas Mills.]
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poet Captain Charles Sorley
[[6] CWGC Casualty Record, Charles Hamilton Sorley.]
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Wales rugby international Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Garnons Williams.
[ Casualty details—Garnons Williams, Richard Davies, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved on 16 April 2009.]
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