Thiepval Wood faces the Ulster Memorial Tower and is the location from where the 36th (Ulster) Division initiated its attack on the German Lines on the Schwaben Redoubt on the 1st July 1916.

The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 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. [1]

Thiepval Wood is the actual front line battle ground for the 36th (Ulster) Division, who fought over the land during the Battle of the Somme; the original trenches have been carefully uncovered and are continually undergoing preservation. The Connaught Cemetery is at the edge of the wood.

Jan 19, 2023 · The massive Thiepval Memorial, the Menin Gate of the Somme, where some 72,000 officers and men of the British and South African armies killed in this area prior to 20th March 1918 and who have no know grave are remembered; Australian, Canadian, Newfoundland and New Zealand missing are remembered on other memorials elsewhere.

The Ulster Tower, located in Thiepval, France, is Northern Ireland's National War Memorial. It was one of the first memorials to be erected on the Western Front and commemorates the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division and all those from Ulster who served in the First World War.

The Somme Association has responsibility for the Somme Museum, formerly the Somme Heritage Centre at Conlig in County Down, the Ulster Memorial Tower on the site of the Battle of the Somme near Thiepval in France, and Thiepval Wood, from where the 36th (Ulster) Division launched the attack on the German lines at 7:30 am on 1st July 1916.

The soldiers of 36th Division left the British Front Line at the eastern end of Thiepval Wood, crossed No Man's Land and broke through the badly damaged German Front Line trench. They also captured the difficult obstacle of the large German stronghold at the Schwaben Redoubt just beyond the German Front Line.

Nov 24, 2020 · Located on what was the German front line during the Battle of the Somme, the Ulster Memorial Tower faces Thiepval Wood, the site from which the 36th (Ulster) Division made its charge on the first day of the famous offensive, 1 July 1916.

Apr 7, 2019 · The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of 73,367 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918, and whose graves are not known.

Jun 9, 2016 · Thiepval Wood, looking south from the position of the German front lines in the summer of 1916. Away to the left the Thiepval Memorial towers above all, and on the horizon just to the right of the memorial a small clump of trees grow on the site of the Leipzig Redoubt .