The Lost Men France
World War One Centenary, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, Northern France
1 July – 1 October 2014

The Lost Men France was a once-only counter-memorial and an official feature of the 2014 – 2018 First World War Centenary. It was temporarily installed adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, Northern France as an intervention in the Somme Circuit of Remembrance. In the battles that were fought on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918,  thousands of South African servicemen took part and died alongside the Allies but white and black South African men were valourised differently. The Lost Men France depicted these names alongside those of the Allies and Germans. Supported by La Mission du Centenaire de la Première Guerre Mondiale, Paris, Institut Français Paris / Johannesburg and The National Arts Council of South Africa.