The memorial lists 9,843 names of British and South African soldiers with no known grave who were killed during the Advance to Victory, from 8 August 1918 to the Armistice (11 November 1918).

Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces that fell during this period and were not found, are commemorated elsewhere on other memorials to the missing.

[1][2] The memorial has a screen wall in three parts on which are carved the names of the missing listed by regiment.

Shaw, a Labour Party MP and cabinet minister, was present in his role as British Secretary of State for War.

Also present was General Walter Braithwaite, who had served in the Mediterranean and on the Western Front during the war.