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THE memory of a pair of Bolton brothers who died for their country at The Battle of the Somme is being preserved as part of a restoration project. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is undertaking large-scale restoration to the Thiepval Memorial - the monument in Northern France that bears the names of more than 72,000 missing men of the First World War. It commemorates British and South African forces killed in the area and is one of the most visited CWGC sites in the world. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme (July 1, 1916) almost 20,000 men under British command died. By the time the battle was over, 141 days later, more than a million people on all sides were killed, wounded, or went missing.