The soldiers who died on the Somme are buried or commemorated close to where they fell.  There are over 250 cemeteries on the former battlefield. Almost 77,000 of the 125,000 Commonwealth soldiers who died during the 1916 Battle of the Somme have no known grave. Most of the missing, 65,000 British and 840 South African, are commemorated on the Thiepval memorial.  National memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bretonneux commemorate over 4,500 Canadians and 5,000 Australians who died between July and November 1916. In Caterpillar Valley Cemetery another memorial commemorates the 1,200 New Zealand missing. The losses suffered by the Newfoundland Regiment on the first day of the Battle led to the creation of the Beaumont Hamel memorial park The names of Newfoundland’s 820 missing in the Great War are inscribed on a memorial there.
Over 17,000 German soldiers who fell on the Somme, including the 10,000 who died in the 1916 Battle, are buried in the German military cemetery at Fricourt.

UK National Inventory of War Memorials

In addition to the memorials and cemeteries in France there are an estimated 70,000 war memorials throughout the UK in many differing forms.  The UK National Inventory of War Memorials provides for the first time a UK-wide database of these memorials.

Go to the UK National Inventory of War Memorials