Arras Memorial

Arras Memorial
Arras Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
	Arras Memorial forming one side of the Faubourg d'Amiens British Cemetery
	For forces of the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand
Unveiled	31 July 1932
Location	50°17′14.58″N 02°45′35.32″E / 50.2873833°N 2.7598111°E
Designed by	Sir Edwin Lutyens (architect); Sir William Reid Dick (sculptor)
	Here are recorded the names of 35942 officers and men of the forces of the British Empire who fell in the Battles of Arras or in air operations above the Western Front and who have no known grave
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name	Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, ii, vi
Designated	2023 (45th session)
Reference no.	1567-PC11
	Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The Arras Memorial is a World War I memorial in France, located in the Faubourg d'Amiens British Cemetery, in the western part of the town of Arras. The memorial commemorates 35,942 soldiers of the forces of the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand, with no known grave, who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918.

The major battle in this area during this period was the

Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

.

Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial includes sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick. Located in the same cemetery is the Arras Flying Services Memorial (commemorating 991 airmen with no known grave).

Both memorials were unveiled by

Richard Bell-Davies, British First World War fighter pilot and Royal Navy officer, and recipient of the Victoria Cross.^[2]