09 May, 2026
Orphaned Baby Hippo, Named “Bumpy”, To Be Hand-Reared By Keepers At A Kenya Sanctuary.
“Bumpy” is happiest when snuggling up to his keeper,
says the Wildlife Charity. The orphaned baby Hippo
is to be hand-reared by keepers at a Kenya Sanctuary.
Picture Credit: Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
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“Right Here Waiting For You”. Sung By: Richard Marx.
“Right Here Waiting For You”.
Sung By: Richard Marx.
Available On YouTube
The Rogation Days. The Lesser Litanies. The Greater Litanies. Chestnut Sunday. The Litany Of The Saints.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
In 2026, “The Rogation Days” are:unless stated otherwise.
Rogation Sunday (“Chestnut Sunday”), 10 May 2026.
“The Lesser Litanies”.
Rogation Monday, 11 May 2026.
Station: At Saint Mary Major;
Rogation Tuesday, 12 May 2026.
Station: At Saint John Lateran;
Rogation Wednesday, 13 May 2026.
Station: At Saint Peter’s.
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines each day.
Violet Vestments.
The Rogation Days in 2026 are followed by
Ascension Day on Thursday, 14 May 2026.
The Ancient Custom of Blessing the Fields.
“Rogation Sunday”.
Hever, Kent, England.
Photo: 9 February 1967.
Source: From geograph.org.uk
Author: Ray Trevena
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Greater Litanies.
25 April.
The Station is at Saint Peter's.
Violet Vestments.
The Church Celebrates, on 25 April, two Solemnities, which have nothing in common: “The Greater Litanies”, so called on account of their Roman origin, and “The Feast of Saint Mark”, which is of later date. The word “Litany” means “Supplication”.
In ancient Rome, on 25 April, used to be celebrated the pagan feast of “Robigalia”. It consisted, principally, of a Procession, which, leaving the City by The Flaminian Gate, went to The Milvian Bridge and ended in a suburban Sanctuary situated on The Claudian Way.
There, a ewe was sacrificed in honour of a god or goddess of the name Robigo (god or goddess of frost). “The Greater Litany” was the substitution of a Christian, for a pagan, Ceremony. Its itinerary is known to us by a convocation of Saint Gregory the Great. It is, approximately, the same as that of the pagan Procession.
“Ember Days”
and
“Rogation Days”.
Sermon By: Fr Ripperger.
Available on YouTube
All the Faithful in Rome betook themselves to the Church of Saint Laurence-in-Lucina, the nearest to the Flaminian Gate. Leaving by this Gate, the Procession made a Station at Saint Valentine’s, crossed the Milvian Bridge, and branched off to the Left towards the Vatican.
After halting at a Cross, it entered the Basilica of Saint Peter for the Celebration of the Holy Mysteries.
This Litany is recited throughout The Church to keep away calamities, and to draw down the Blessing of God on the harvest. “Vouchsafe to grant us to preserve the fruits of the Earth, we Pray Thee, hear us”, is sung by the Procession through the Countryside.
The whole Mass shows what assiduous Prayer may obtain, when in the midst of our adversities (Collects, Offertory) we have recourse with confidence to Our Father in Heaven (Epistle, Gospel, Communion).
If the Feast of Saint Mark is Transferred, the Litanies are not Transferred, unless they fall on Easter Sunday. In which case, they are Transferred to the following Tuesday.
Procession.
See “The Litany Of The Saints”, Page 1888, The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, and “The Rogation Mass”, Page 673, The Saint Andrew Daily Missal (see, below).
“Rogation Days”.
Available on YouTube
“The Lesser Litanies”.
In consequence of the public calamities that afflicted the Diocese of Vienne, Dauphiny, France, in the 5th-Century A.D., Saint Mamertus instituted a Solemn Penitential Procession on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, before Ascension Thursday.
Under an Order of the Council of Orleans, in 511 A.D., the Devotion spread to the rest of France. In 816 A.D., Pope Leo III introduced it in Rome and, soon after, it became a general observance throughout The Church.
“The Litany of The Saints”, and the Psalms and Collects sung in Procession, on these days, are Supplications; hence, the term “Rogations” is applied to them. The object of these Devotions is to appease the Anger of God and avert the scourges of His Justice, and to draw down the Blessings of God on the fruits of the Earth.
Violet is used as a token of Penance, and the Paschal Candle is left unlighted. “The Litany of The Saints”, consisting of ejaculations in the form of a dialogue, is an admirable manner of Prayer, which it should be our purpose to cultivate.
The Celebrant wears a Violet Stole and Violet Cope. All in the Choir stand as they sing the first Antiphon “Exsurge, Domine”.
Mass Of Rogation.
Stations:
Rogation Monday. At Saint Mary Major.
Rogation Tuesday. At Saint John Lateran.
Rogation Wednesday. At Saint Peter’s.
Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines each day.
Violet Vestments.
The Mass, throughout, points to the efficacy of the Prayer of the Just Man, when humble, sure, and persistent. Elias, by Prayer, closed and opened the heavens (Epistle), and Our Lord shows us by two Parables that God gives His Holy Spirit to whomever asks Him, because He is good (Gospel, Alleluia). In our afflictions, let us place our trust in God and He will hear our Prayers (Introit, Collect).
The following Mass is said during, or after, the Procession of both “The Greater Litanies” and “The Lesser Litanies”.
Mass of Rogation: Exaudivit de templo.
Gloria: Is not said.
Preface: Of Easter.
“Litany of The Saints”.
Available on YouTube
“Litany Of The Saints”.
The “Litany Of The Saints” is used in connection with:
Holy Mass on “The Greater Litanies” (25 April);
and
(“The Lesser Litanies”)
“Rogation Monday”
and
“Rogation Tuesday”
and
“Rogation Wednesday”
The Rogation Days
immediately before Ascension Thursday;
and
Holy Saturday;
and
The Vigil of Pentecost;
The Vigil of Pentecost;
and
Masses of Ordination, before the conferring of Major Orders.
On Saint Mark’s Day (25 April) and “Rogation Days”, if the Procession is held, the Litany is preceded by the Antiphon, “Exurge, Domine”, (Psalm XLIII. 26), and all Invocations are sung by the Cantors and repeated in full by the Choir [i.e., “Doubled”].
If the Procession cannot be held, the Invocations are not repeated.
On the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost, the Invocations marked with an asterisk (*) in the Missal are omitted; all the remaining Invocations are repeated, either there be a Font and a Procession from the Baptistry, or not.
At Masses of Ordination, only the First Five Invocations are repeated.
Masses of Ordination, before the conferring of Major Orders.
On Saint Mark’s Day (25 April) and “Rogation Days”, if the Procession is held, the Litany is preceded by the Antiphon, “Exurge, Domine”, (Psalm XLIII. 26), and all Invocations are sung by the Cantors and repeated in full by the Choir [i.e., “Doubled”].
If the Procession cannot be held, the Invocations are not repeated.
On the Vigils of Easter and Pentecost, the Invocations marked with an asterisk (*) in the Missal are omitted; all the remaining Invocations are repeated, either there be a Font and a Procession from the Baptistry, or not.
At Masses of Ordination, only the First Five Invocations are repeated.
“Litany of The Saints”
at the Funeral of Pope Saint John Paul II.
Available on YouTube
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Rogation Days are, in the Calendar of The Western Church, observed on 25 April (“The Major Rogation”) and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (“The Minor Rogations”) immediately preceding Ascension Thursday.
The first Rogation, “The Greater Litanies”, has been compared to the ancient Roman religious festival of the Robigalia, a ritual involving prayer and sacrifice for crops held on 25 April.
The first Rogation is also observed on 25 April, and a direct connection has sometimes been asserted, with the “Christian substitute” following the same processional route in Rome. If Easter falls on 24 April or on this day (the latest possible date for Easter), “The Rogations” are transferred to the following Tuesday.
The second set of “Rogation Days”, “The Lesser Litanies”, or, “Rogations”, introduced about 470 A.D. by Bishop Mamertus of Vienne, and eventually adopted elsewhere, are the three days (Rogation Monday, Rogation Tuesday and Rogation Wednesday) immediately before Ascension Thursday in the Christian Liturgical Calendar.
Rogation Days are, in the Calendar of The Western Church, observed on 25 April (“The Major Rogation”) and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (“The Minor Rogations”) immediately preceding Ascension Thursday.
The first Rogation, “The Greater Litanies”, has been compared to the ancient Roman religious festival of the Robigalia, a ritual involving prayer and sacrifice for crops held on 25 April.
The first Rogation is also observed on 25 April, and a direct connection has sometimes been asserted, with the “Christian substitute” following the same processional route in Rome. If Easter falls on 24 April or on this day (the latest possible date for Easter), “The Rogations” are transferred to the following Tuesday.
The second set of “Rogation Days”, “The Lesser Litanies”, or, “Rogations”, introduced about 470 A.D. by Bishop Mamertus of Vienne, and eventually adopted elsewhere, are the three days (Rogation Monday, Rogation Tuesday and Rogation Wednesday) immediately before Ascension Thursday in the Christian Liturgical Calendar.
The word “Rogation” comes from the Latin verb “Rogare”, meaning “to ask”, and was applied to this time of the Liturgical Year because the Gospel Reading for the previous Sunday included the passage: “Ask, and ye shall receive” (Gospel of John 16:24).
The Sunday, itself, was often called Rogation Sunday (and/or Chestnut Sunday), as a result, and marked the start of a three-week period (ending on Trinity Sunday), when Roman Catholic and Anglican Clergy did not Solemnise marriages (two other such periods of marital prohibition also formerly existed, one beginning on the First Sunday in Advent and continuing through the Octave of Epiphany, or 13 January, and the other running from Septuagesima until the Octave of Easter, the Sunday after Easter).
In England, Rogation Sunday is called “Chestnut Sunday”.
The Faithful typically observed the Rogation Days by Fasting in preparation to Celebrate the Ascension, and farmers often had their crops Blessed by a Priest at this time.
Violet Vestments are worn at the Rogation Litany and its associated Mass, regardless of what Colour Vestments were worn at the ordinary Liturgies of the Day.
A common feature of Rogation Days, in former times, was the Ceremony of “Beating The Bounds”, in which a Procession of Parishioners, led by the Minister, Churchwarden, and Choirboys, would proceed around the boundary of their Parish and Pray for its protection in the forthcoming year. This was also known as “Gang-Day”.
The reform of the Liturgical Calendar for Latin Roman Catholics, in 1969, delegated the establishment of Rogation Days, along with Ember Days, to the Episcopal Conferences.
Their observance in the Latin Church subsequently declined, but the observance has revived somewhat, since 1988, (when Pope Saint John Paul II issued his Decree Ecclesia Dei Adflicta), and especially since 2007 (when Pope Benedict XVI issued his Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum”), when the use of older Rites was encouraged.
Churches of the Anglican Communion reformed their Liturgical Calendar in 1976, but continue to recognise the Three Days before Ascension Day as an Optional Observance.
“Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Turn Around)”. Sung By: Bonnie Tyler.
“Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Turn Around)”.
Sung By: Bonnie Tyler.
Available On YouTube
Exeter Cathedral (Cathedral Church Of Saint Peter). The Longest Uninterrupted Mediæval Vaulted Ceiling In The World. (Part Two).
Photo: 10 January 2017.
Source: Own work.
Author: DeFacto
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
It was constructed entirely of local Stone, including Purbeck Marble. The new Cathedral was complete by about 1400, apart from the addition of the Chapter House and Chantry Chapels.
Like most English Cathedrals, Exeter suffered during The Dissolution of The Monasteries, but not as much as it would have done had it been a Monastic Foundation.
Further damage was done during The Civil War, when the Cloisters were destroyed. Following the restoration of King Charles II, a new Pipe Organ was built in the Cathedral by John Loosemore.
The Quire (Choir) of Exeter Cathedral.
Photo: 30 April 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: "Photo by David Iliff.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0"
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)
Charles II’s sister, Henrietta Anne of England, was Baptised here in 1644. In 1650, an independent Church was meeting in the Cathedral and this small Church caused upset when the Minister “excommunicated” Susanna Parr.[4]
During the Victorian era, some refurbishment was carried out by George Gilbert Scott. As a boy, the composer Matthew Locke was trained in the Choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons. His name can be found scribed into the Stone Organ Screen.
During The Second World War, Exeter was one of the targets of a German air offensive against British Cities of cultural and historical importance, which became known as the “Baedeker Blitz”.
The Great East Window,
Exeter Cathedral.
Photo: 10 January 2017.
Source: Own work.
Author: DeFacto
(Wikimedia Commons)
On 4 May 1942, an early-morning air raid took place over Exeter. The Cathedral sustained a direct hit by a large high-explosive bomb on the Chapel of Saint James, completely demolishing it.
The Muniment Room, above, three Bays of the Aisle, and two Flying Buttresses, were also destroyed in the blast. The Mediæval Wooden Screen, opposite the Chapel, was smashed into many pieces by the blast, but it has been reconstructed and restored.[5]
Many of the Cathedral’s most important artefacts, such as the ancient glass (including The Great East Window), the Misericords, the Bishop’s Throne, The Exeter Book, the ancient Charters (of King Athelstan and Edward the Confessor), and other precious documents from the Library, had been removed in anticipation of such an attack.
PART THREE FOLLOWS.
Saint Gregory Nazianzen. Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day 9 May. White Vestments.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Gregory Nazianzen.
Bishop.
Confessor.
Doctor of The Church.
Feast Day 9 May.
Double.
White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Gregory Nazianzen.
Bishop.
Confessor.
Doctor of The Church.
Feast Day 9 May.
Double.
White Vestments.
Icon of Saint Gregory Nazianzen.
Fresco from Kariye Camii, Istanbul, Turkey.
This File: 5 April 2008.
User: Testus
(Wikimedia Commons)
Sermon on Saint Gregory Nazianzen.
Available on YouTube
Saint Gregory was born at Nazianzus in Cappadocia (Editor: Modern-day Turkey). He was educated at Athens in all the sciences, at the same time as Saint Basil the Great, with whom he was always united in the bonds of a holy friendship. Brothers in their studies, they remained brothers in their Monastic life and in the Episcopate.
Having become Bishop of Nazianzus, and, later, Patriarch of Constantinople (Communion), he was “the light which, raised on the candlestick, sheds its rays on all those who dwell in the house” (Gospel).
Filled with “the spirit of Wisdom and Intelligence” (Introit, Epistle), his profound knowledge of the Scriptures earned for him the Title of Doctor and Theologian, which The Church has confirmed. Saint Gregory Nazianzen died in 389 A.D.
Mass: In médio.
08 May, 2026
Fr. Perricone To Celebrate 50th Annivesary Of Ordination.
Illustration:
“Ad Multos Annos”.
Solemn High Mass,
50th Anniversary of Ordination,
of Rev. Fr. John A. Perricone,
Saint Patrick Church,
Bramhall and Ocean Avenues,
Jersey City, New Jersey 07304.
Thursday, 21 May 2026.
1330 hrs.
Thiepval Memorial To The Missing Of The Somme.
Thiepval Memorial, France.
Photo: September 2006.
Source:
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Share Alike 2.0 Generic licence.
Author:
Amanda Slater, Coventry, England.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
The Memorial was built approximately 200 metres (660 feet) to the South-East of the former Thiepval Château, which was located on lower ground, by the side of Thiepval Wood.
[Editor: “Accrington Bricks”, or “Nori”,[1] are a type of iron-hard Engineering Brick, produced in Altham, near Accrington, Lancashire, England, from 1887 to 2008 and, again, from 2015.[2] They were famed for their strength, and were used for the foundations of the Blackpool Tower and the Empire State Building.]
unless stated otherwise.
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a
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]
Part of a set of photographs of the sixteen
Battle Roundels carved on the Thiepval Memorial
to The Missing of The Somme.
Photo: 7 September 2010.
Source: Own work.
This File is licensed under the
Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.
Author: Carcharoth (Commons)
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Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval Memorial has
been described as “the greatest British work of monumental architecture of the 20th-Century”.[3]
The Memorial was built approximately 200 metres (660 feet) to the South-East of the former Thiepval Château, which was located on lower ground, by the side of Thiepval Wood.
The grounds of the original Château were not chosen as this would have required the moving of graves, dug during the War around the numerous Medical Aid Stations.
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest Commonwealth Memorial to The Missing in the World.
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Memorial was built between 1928 and 1932 and is the largest Commonwealth Memorial to The Missing in the World.
It was inaugurated by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) in the presence of Albert Lebrun, the President of France, on 1 August 1932.[1]
The unveiling ceremony was attended by Lutyens.[4] It was the last of the Special Memorials in Flanders and Picardy to be unveiled.[5]
The Memorial dominates the rural scene and has sixteen Brick Piers, faced with Portland Stone. It was originally built using French Bricks from Lille, but was re-faced in 1973 with Accrington Brick.[2][6]
The Memorial dominates the rural scene and has sixteen Brick Piers, faced with Portland Stone. It was originally built using French Bricks from Lille, but was re-faced in 1973 with Accrington Brick.[2][6]
[Editor: “Accrington Bricks”, or “Nori”,[1] are a type of iron-hard Engineering Brick, produced in Altham, near Accrington, Lancashire, England, from 1887 to 2008 and, again, from 2015.[2] They were famed for their strength, and were used for the foundations of the Blackpool Tower and the Empire State Building.]
The Main Arch is aligned East to West.[7] The Memorial is 140 feet (forty-three metres) high above the level of its Podium.[7][8]
It has foundations nineteen feet (six metres) thick, which were required because of extensive Wartime tunnelling beneath the structure.
It is a complex form of Memorial Arch, comprising interlocking Arches of four sizes.
It is a complex form of Memorial Arch, comprising interlocking Arches of four sizes.
Thiepval Memorial lit up for the first time.
Available on YouTube
Each side of the Main Arch is pierced by a smaller Arch, oriented at a Right Angle to the Main Arch.
Each side of each of these smaller Arches is then pierced by a still smaller Arch, and so on.[9]
The Keystone of each smaller Arch is at the level of the Spring of the larger Arch that it pierces; each of these levels is marked by a Stone Cornice.[10]
This design results in sixteen Piers, having sixty-four Stone-Panelled Sides.[9] Only forty-eight of these are inscribed, as the Panels around the outside of the Memorial are blank.[11]
The Cross of Sacrifice and British graves (Left)
and French graves (Right) at the Thiepval Memorial.
Photo: 14 August 2013.
Source: Own work.
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Creative Commons Attribution-
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2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic licence.
Author: Wernervc
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According to the architectural historian Stephen Games, the Memorial is composed of two intersecting Triumphal Arches, each with a larger Central Arch and two smaller Subsidiary Arches.
The Main Arch is surmounted by a Tower.[9]
In the central space of the Memorial, a Stone of Remembrance rests on a three-stepped Platform.[10]
The Memorial is graven with the names of 72,246 Officers and Men (see below) and Lutyens’s ingenious geometry arises out of the attempt to display these names in compact form, rather than in the longer, lower, and linear form, taken by other Memorials to The Missing of the War, such as those at Loos, Pozières, and Arras.[1][12][13]
The inscription of names on the Memorial is reserved for those missing or unidentified Soldiers who have no known grave.
The Memorial is graven with the names of 72,246 Officers and Men (see below) and Lutyens’s ingenious geometry arises out of the attempt to display these names in compact form, rather than in the longer, lower, and linear form, taken by other Memorials to The Missing of the War, such as those at Loos, Pozières, and Arras.[1][12][13]
The inscription of names on the Memorial is reserved for those missing or unidentified Soldiers who have no known grave.
A large inscription on an internal surface of the Memorial reads:
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of
Here are recorded names of officers and men of the British Armies who fell on the Somme Battlefields July 1915 — February 1918, but to whom the fortune of War denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death.
On the Portland stone piers are engraved the names of
over 72,000 men who were lost in the Somme Battles between July 1915 and March 1918. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission states that over ninety per cent of these soldiers died in the First Battle of the Somme between 1 July and
18 November 1916.[1]
Thiepval Memorial 1916 — 2016.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Available on YouTube
The names are carved using the standard Upper-Case lettering designed for the commission by MacDonald Gill.[11]
Over the years since its inauguration, bodies have been discovered on the former Battlefield and are sometimes identified by various means.
Over the years since its inauguration, bodies have been discovered on the former Battlefield and are sometimes identified by various means.
The decision was taken that to protect the integrity of the Memorial as one solely for those who are missing or unidentified, that if a body were found and identified, the inscription of their name would be removed from the Memorial by filling in the inscription with cement.
For those who are found and identified, they are given a funeral with full Military Honours at a Cemetery close to the location at which they were discovered.
Canadian Corps Troops. Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917. Mark II “Female” Tank, Number 598, advancing at Vimy Ridge.
[Editor: Copilot states that: Some First World War Tanks were called “Female” because of the type of weapons they carried. The distinction came from the British Army during the introduction of the Mark I Tank in 1916.
A Female Tank carried only Machine Guns, while a Male Tank carried two 6‑Pounder Naval Guns, plus Machine Guns. This classification was created by Lt‑Col. Ernest Swinton, one of the key figures behind the development of the Tank.
Swinton feared that Tanks armed with big Guns might struggle to defend themselves against close‑range Infantry attacks. So, in April 1916 (just before The First Battle of The Somme), he proposed that half of the first 150 Tanks should be built with Machine‑Gun‑only armament. These would accompany the Heavy-Gun‑armed Tanks into Battle, providing mutual support. The idea was that the two types would operate in pairs: The Male Tank would attack hardened positions and enemy strongpoints. The Female Tank would suppress enemy Infantry with rapid Machine‑Gun fire.
Both Male and Female Tanks fought in the Battle of Flers‑Courcelette, on The Somme, on 15 September 1916, the first time Tanks were ever used in combat].
Date: April 1917.
Source: This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number PA-004388 and under the MIKAN ID number 3522713.
Author: Canada. Dept. of National Defence
(Wikimedia Commons)
This practice has resulted in numerous gaps in the lists of names.
On top of the Archway, a French inscription reads “Aux armées Française et Britannique l’Empire Britannique reconnaissant” (“To the French and British Armies, from the grateful British Empire”). Just below this, are carved the years 1914 and 1918. On the upper edges of the side Archways, split across left and right, is carved the phrase: “The Missing — of The Somme”.[14]
On top of the Archway, a French inscription reads “Aux armées Française et Britannique l’Empire Britannique reconnaissant” (“To the French and British Armies, from the grateful British Empire”). Just below this, are carved the years 1914 and 1918. On the upper edges of the side Archways, split across left and right, is carved the phrase: “The Missing — of The Somme”.[14]
Included on this Memorial are sixteen Stone Laurel Wreaths, inscribed with the names of Sub-Battles that made up the Battle of The Somme and subsequent actions, in which the men commemorated at Thiepval fell.
One is simply titled “Somme 1916”.
Thirteen Battles so-named on the other Roundels, are:
The final two Roundels are for “Bapaume” and “Miraumont”, most likely referring to Battles or Actions on the Somme Front in 1917, as the Thiepval Memorial includes the Missing Dead that fell before 20 March 1918.
The Actions of Miraumont took place from 17 February 1917 to 18 February 1917 and Bapaume was occupied by the British on 17 March 1917 (see Operations on The Ancre, January – March 1917).
Seven Victoria Cross recipients are listed on the Memorial, under their respective Regiments.[15] All British, unless otherwise noted:
English: French Soldiers moving into attack
from their trench during the Battle of Verdun, 1916.
Français: Soldats français à l’assaut sortent
de leur tranchée pendant la bataille de Verdun, 1916.
Date: 1916.
Source: www.docpix.fr
Author: Collection DocAnciens/docpix.fr
(Wikimedia Commons)
Eric Norman Frankland Bell;
William Buckingham;
Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather;
William McFadzean;
William Mariner;
Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson;
Alexander Young (South African).
William Buckingham;
Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather;
William McFadzean;
William Mariner;
Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson;
Alexander Young (South African).
Also commemorated are:
English First-Class Cricketer, Alban Arnold[16];
English First-Class Cricketer, Sydney Thomas Askham[17];
Composer, George Butterworth[18];
Irish First-Class Cricketer, William Crozier[19];
Scots Rugby International, Rowland Fraser[20];
English First-Class Cricketer, John Gregory[21];
England Rugby International and Clergyman, Rupert Inglis[22];
Irish Economist, Poet and former British Member of Parliament, Thomas Michael Kettle[23];
England Rugby International, John Abbott King[24];
Irish International Footballer, Jimmy Maxwell[25];
England Rugby International, Alfred Maynard[26];
Scots Rugby International, Eric Milroy[27];
Welsh International Footballer, Leigh Richmond Roose[28];
English Writer, Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)[29];
English First-Class Cricketer, Ernest Shorrocks[30];
Welsh Rugby International, Dick Thomas[31];
Welsh Rugby International, Horace Thomas[32];
Musician and Composer, Francis Purcell Warren[33];
Welsh Rugby International, David Watts[34];
English River Plate Footballer, Arthur Herbert Thompson[35].
English First-Class Cricketer, Sydney Thomas Askham[17];
Composer, George Butterworth[18];
Irish First-Class Cricketer, William Crozier[19];
Scots Rugby International, Rowland Fraser[20];
English First-Class Cricketer, John Gregory[21];
England Rugby International and Clergyman, Rupert Inglis[22];
Irish Economist, Poet and former British Member of Parliament, Thomas Michael Kettle[23];
England Rugby International, John Abbott King[24];
Irish International Footballer, Jimmy Maxwell[25];
England Rugby International, Alfred Maynard[26];
Scots Rugby International, Eric Milroy[27];
Welsh International Footballer, Leigh Richmond Roose[28];
English Writer, Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)[29];
English First-Class Cricketer, Ernest Shorrocks[30];
Welsh Rugby International, Dick Thomas[31];
Welsh Rugby International, Horace Thomas[32];
Musician and Composer, Francis Purcell Warren[33];
Welsh Rugby International, David Watts[34];
English River Plate Footballer, Arthur Herbert Thompson[35].
The Thiepval Memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle Memorial to commemorate the joint nature of the 1916 Offensive.[1]
In further recognition of this, a Cemetery, Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery, containing 300 British Commonwealth and 300 French graves, lies at the foot of the Memorial.
8-inch Howitzers of the 39th Siege Battery,
Royal Garrison Artillery, open fire in the Fricourt-Mametz Valley, August 1916, during The Battle of The Somme.
Español: La artillería británica bombardea
las filas alemanas durante el mes de agosto de 1916.
Photo: August 1916.
Source: This photograph Q 5818 comes from the
Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900 - 13).
Author: John Warwick Brooke (1886 – 1929).
(Wikimedia Commons)
Most of the Soldiers buried here — 239 of the British Commonwealth and 253 of the French — are unknown, the bodies having been reburied here after discovery between December 1931 and March 1932, mostly from the Somme Battlefields, but some from as far North as Loos, and as far South as Le Quesnel.[36]
The British Commonwealth graves have rectangular headstones made of White Stone, while the French graves have Grey Stone Crosses.
For those unidentified, the British headstones bear the inscription: “A Soldier of The Great War — Known unto God”; the French Crosses bear the single word “Inconnu” (“Unknown”).
The Cemetery’s Cross of Sacrifice bears an inscription that acknowledges the joint British and French contributions:
German Submarine U-155 exhibited near Tower Bridge, London, after the 1918 Armistice, which ended World War I.
Date: 1918.
Source: Flickr the Commons,
Author: Unknown.
(Wikimedia Commons)
That the World may remember the common sacrifice of
two and a half million dead, here have been laid,
side by side, Soldiers of France and of the British Empire
in eternal comradeship.
Each year on 1 July (the anniversary of the First Day on The Somme) a major ceremony is held at the Memorial.[1]
There is also a ceremony on 11 November (Remembrance Day), beginning at 1045 hrs.
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