On the 80th Anniversary of the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, a memorial was erected in the village of Authuille to honour the memory of the 15th, 16th and 17th Battalions of the Highland Light Infantry. 

The Orange Memorial has been erected in recent years on ground adjacent to the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial at Thiepval. 

The Memorial to the 18th Division of the British Army is on the north west side of the road from Thiepval to Authuille, on the edge of the village of Thiepval.

The Memorial to the Missing is the largest British war memorial in the world.

The memorial carries the names of 73,412 soldiers missing after the Battle of the Somme.

The Memorial to the Missing in the foreground and Mouquet Farm in the distance just above the centre of the picture. 

Mouquet Farm is in the foreground with Thiepval upper right and the Memorial to the Missing upper centre. 

Thiepval Wood (known today as Bois d’Authuille) on the upper left and the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial to its right in a wooded area. 

Thiepval on the right of the picture, the Memorial to the Missing right of centre and the area of the Liepzig Redoubt in the upper centre. 

The massive Memorial to the Missing occupies a commanding position on the top of Thiepval Ridge.  It can be seen from miles around.

The impact of the fighting during the Great War has left many lasting impressions on our day-to-day life. 

Examples are some phrases still in common use today such as ‘over the top’, ‘no man’s land’, ‘up the line’, ‘war to end wars’ and ‘tanks’.