{{Short description|Memorial in Cambrai}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox Military Memorial |name=Cambrai Memorial |country=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |image=300px |caption=Memorial to the missing at Louverval military cemetery |commemorates=soldiers missing in the area during World War I |unveiled=4 August 1930 |coordinates= {{coord|50|8|12|N|3|0|55|E|type:landmark_region:FR|display=inline,title}} |nearest_town= Doignies, France |designer= H Chalton Bradshaw |inscription=To the Glory of God and to the enduring memory of 7048 Officers and Men of the forces of the British Empire who fell at the Battle of Cambrai 20 Nov&mdash;3 Dec 1917 but who have no known grave. Their names are here recorded. |source={{cwgc cemetery|79300}} | embedded = {{designation list | embed=yes | designation1 = WHS | designation1_offname =Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) | designation1_type = Cultural | designation1_criteria = i, ii, vi | designation1_date = 2023 <small>(45th session)</small> | designation1_number = [https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1567 1567-ND03] }} }} The '''Cambrai Memorial to the Missing''' (sometimes referred to as the '''Louverval Memorial''')<ref name="14-18">{{cite web |url= http://www.1914-1918.net/bat21.htm |title=The Cambrai Operations: November-December 1917 |first=Chris |last=Baker |work=The Long, Long Trail: The British Army of 1914-1918 |year=2014 |accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref> is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial for the missing soldiers of World War I who fought in the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front.<ref name="cwgc1">{{cite web |url= http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/79300/CAMBRAI%20MEMORIAL,%20LOUVERVAL |title=Cambrai Memorial, Louverval |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |year=2015 |accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref>

==Foundation==

thumb|left|Entrance pylon at Louverval Military Cemetery on 24 November 2017 shortly before a Drumhead Service by the Royal Tank Regiment marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Cambrai. The memorial to the missing is in the background.

The memorial stands at one end of Louverval Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, which was founded by Commonwealth troops in April 1917 on the site of Louverval Chateau<ref name="cwgc2">{{cite web |url= http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/26606/LOUVERVAL%20MILITARY%20CEMETERY,%20DOIGNIES |title=Louverval Military Cemetery, Doignies |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |year=2015 |accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref> in northern France.

The memorial lists the 7,048<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/others/cambrai.html |title=The Cambrai Battlefields: Louverval Memorial to the Missing |work=World War One Battlefields |year=2011 |access-date=3 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907164919/http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/others/cambrai.html# |archive-date=7 September 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> missing soldiers of the United Kingdom and South Africa who died at the Battle of Cambrai and have no known graves.<ref name="malvern">{{cite web|url=http://www.malvernremembers.org.uk/CWGCMemorials.html |title=CWGC Memorials |work=Malvern Remembers |access-date=28 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225143907/http://www.malvernremembers.org.uk/CWGCMemorials.html |archive-date=December 25, 2007 }}</ref>

The memorial was designed by H. Chalton Bradshaw, who also designed the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium,<ref name="cwgc3">{{cite web |url= http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/88800/PLOEGSTEERT%20MEMORIAL |title=Ploegsteert Memorial |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |year=2015 |accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref> with sculpture by Charles Sargeant Jagger.<ref name="cwgc1" />

It was unveiled on 4 August 1930 by Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Ridley Vaughan.

{{clear}} <gallery caption="Sculptures by Charles Sargeant Jagger" mode=packed heights=200px> Louverval102.jpg|Trench periscope Louverval101.jpg|Stretcher bearers </gallery>

==Notable names== The memorial holds the names of seven recipients of the Victoria Cross who have no known grave.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ggfrcamb.htm |title=Names of Victoria Cross holders on the Cambrai Memorial, France |work=Victoria Cross.org.uk |year=2014 |accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref>

*Private George William Burdett Clare *Private Frederick George Dancox *2nd Lt James Samuel Emerson *Major Frederick Henry Johnson *Captain <!--Spelling is correct-->Allastair Malcolm Cluny McReady-Diarmid *Captain Walter Napleton Stone *Captain Richard William Leslie Wain

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{cwgc cemetery|79300}}

{{Charles Sargeant Jagger}} {{World War I War Memorials in France}}

Category:Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials Category:World War I memorials in France Category:Sculptures by Charles Sargeant Jagger Category:Cemeteries in Nord (French department) Category:1930 sculptures Category:Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)