Historical Information

L’Anneau de la Mémoire - The Memorial Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

This memorial pays tribute to the memory of soldiers who fell in the North and in the Pas-de-Calais between 1914 and 1918. 

The 580 000 names are listed in alphabetical order, without any distinction made between rank or nationality, former enemies and friends side by side. (40 different nationalities)

294 000 Commonwealth

174 000 Germans

106 000 French

2 300 Belgians

2 300 Portugese

And Russian and Romanians POW