Many of the casualties of the initial World War I battles had no known grave, and were instead commemorated after the war on ‘Memorials to the Missing‘. In later battles, the intensity of the fighting sometimes meant that bodies could not be recovered or identified until much later, if at all.
The highest number of casualties occurred on the Western Front in France and Belgium. In total, over 20 separate CWGC or national memorials to the missing of the Western Front were designed and built.
… for a full list of the Memorials in France and Belgium
A further 18 CWGC memorials to the missing of the First World War were erected elsewhere, both in the UK and other regions of the world.
… for a list of the larger Memorials in other parts of the World
World War 1 Memorials Containing Buxton Casualties
Of the men and 1 woman who gave their lives in the Great War, and are named on the Memorials in the Buxton and surrounding area, 135 are “Known Unto God“, in that they have no known grave and are commemorated on 23 WW1 Memorials around the World.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, 27 of these are named on the Naval Memorials at Chatham (4), Plymouth (16) and Portsmouth (7). After these come the Memorials to the major Battles – i.e. Thiepval (16), Tyne Cot (16), Ypres (14), Loos and Arras (12 each) – 80 in total.
No other Memorial contains more than 4 Buxton names. Access to the names on each Memorial can be accessed using the MENU BAR, alongside this link above.
