Thiepval: The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme

The Imperial War Graves Commission and Sir Edwin Lutyens
Panel: Jon Gedling, Martin Lutyens
Host & Moderator: Robin Prater
Lutyens’s Memorial to the Missing of the Somme was designed to honor the thousands of men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died fighting in the Somme and who have no known grave. Lutyens answered the call for such a memorial with a unique geometric composition that is a distillation of the classical tradition.
Jon Gedling
Jon is Director of Works at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), where he is responsible for overseeing the care and upkeep of the CWGC’s memorials and structures around the world and setting the policy and direction for the global conservation approach of the organisation. Jon is a Chartered Building Surveyor and has worked in private practice and for various client side organisations specialising in the management of historic estates. His background has been particularly focussed towards managing major conservation projects and in previous roles he was Assistant Property Manager for the Royal Household Property Section and Chief Surveyor at Eton College. Jon also acts as an Assessor for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Martin Lutyens
Chairman, The Lutyens Trust, America & Co-Chairman, The Lutyens Trust, UK
Martin was born in Kolkata and brought up and educated in England. After military service and a career in a major international consulting firm, he is now Co-Chairman of The Lutyens Trust in the UK and Chairman of its sister organisation in the US, The Lutyens Trust America. Both organisations are dedicated to the study, conservation and promotion of the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens OM KCIE PRA. In recent years he has also served as a trustee of Glyndebourne and as Chairman of Sir John Soane’s Museum Society. He and his Spanish wife live in London.
Useful links:
www.liverpoolm...
macdonaldgill.com
www.cwgc.org/v...
www.english-he...
www.cwgc.org
If you enjoyed this webinar please subscribe to our CZcams Channel. You can also join us as a member:
if you are US based:
lutyenstrustam...
for UK and rest of the world:
www.lutyenstru...

[@Timur18056]

Wonderful as always. Thank you.

[@YauFamily2010]

Fascinating talk and great speakers. Thank you for sharing this recording.

[@bgumbleton]

My great uncles' name (and my namesake) is memorialized on one of the bricks