And so to Thiepval. The memorial is clearly visible from a distance and I think that I have probably been past it before, without realising exactly what it was. An amazing structure with over seventy two thousand names of missing soldiers from the Somme region. Most of them died in 1916, in the space of a few months. It is another of those statistics which is absolutely beyond comprehension. There are some general photographs as well as your family members' names, some of which might be in need of some of Poll's expertise on the restoration front.
