The pattern of death, drawn by white chalk that came out of the trenches and the shell holes.
Nowadays Thiepval is the place of a huge memorial, with white stone panels on which are inscribed over 73,000 names of both British and French soldiers who were killed in the Somme Battlefield between 1916-1917, and who have no known graves.
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