The Thiepval Memorial is a war memorial to 72,246 missing British and South African servicemen who died in what battle tha took place between July 1st and November 18th in 1916?
Thiepval Memorial The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,246 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. A visitors' centre opened in 2004. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century."
Patrick Whelan Patrick Whelan (4 September 1893 - 26 April 1916) was an Irish Volunteer, killed in action in Boland's Mill during the Battle of Mount Street Bridge during the Easter Rising of 1916. He was posthumously awarded the 1916 Medal in 1941. Whelan House in Thorncastle Street, Ringsend, Dublin, the street where he was born, is named in his honour.