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Visitors pay respects to the war dead from the first world war at the Sir Edward Lutyens designed Thiepval memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world ? there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme. A total of 700,000 troops were killed on the Western Front, of whom 300,000 have no known grave..

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Visitors pay respects to the war dead from the first world war at the Sir Edward Lutyens designed Thiepval memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world ? there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme. A total of 700,000 troops were killed on the Western Front, of whom 300,000 have no known grave..