Amongst those buried in Lonsdale Cemetery is Sergeant James Youll Turnbull V.C., 17th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, (Glasgow Commercials) who died July 1, 1916, aged 32.  He was the son of James and Elizabeth Turnbull of Glasgow. 

The Lonsdale Cemetery is where many of the 11th (Lonsdale) Battalion of the Border Regiment are buried.  They suffered very heavy casualties as they advanced on the Leipzig Redoubt from the sanctuary of Authuille Wood on 1 July 1916. 

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. 

Authuille is 5km north of Albert.  Authuille Military Cemetery is on the south side of the village, between the road to Albert and the River Ancre

Authuille was held by British troops from the summer of 1915 to March 1918, when it was captured in the German Offensive on the Somme.  As a village, it was ruined by shellfire even before that date.

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.