engineering

Loos Memorial

Loos Memorial is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Loos Memorial rather than just read about it. In short: The Loos Memorial is a World War I memorial forming the sides and rear of Dud Corner Cemetery, located near the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, in the Pas-de-Calais département of France. The memorial lists 20,610 names of British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave who were killed in the area during and after the Battle of Loos, which started on 25 September 1915.

Key takeaways

Loos Memorial belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Loos Memorial to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Loos Memorial from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Loos Memorial is a World War I memorial forming the sides and rear of Dud Corner Cemetery, located near the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, in the Pas-de-Calais département of France. The memorial lists 20,610 names of British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave who were killed in the area during and after the Battle of Loos, which started on 25 September 1915. This memorial covers the same sector of the front as the Le Touret Memorial, with each memorial commemorating the dead either side of the date of the start of the Battle of Loos. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker, the sculptures were by Sir Charles Wheeler. The memorial was unveiled on 4 August 1930 by General Sir Nevil Macready. Macready served as Adjutant-General of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from the outbreak of the war to February 1916, and then served as Adjutant-General to the Forces until a few months before the end of the war in November 1918.

Notable commemoratees Three posthumous Victoria Cross recipients are commemorated on this memorial under their respective regiments:

Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Douglas-Hamilton Private George Peachment Second Lieutenant Frank Wearne

Also commemorated on this memorial are:

Scots rugby international Second Lieutenant Walter Michael Dickson English first-class cricketer Arthur Edwards. England rugby international Second Lieutenant Douglas Lambert. British Member of Parliament Second Lieutenant The Hon. Charles Thomas Mills. poet Captain Charles Sorley Wales rugby international Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Garnons Williams.

References

External links Commonwealth War Graves Commission details of the Loos Memorial Set of pictures of the cemetery and memorial Description and some history of the cemetery and memorial

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Loos Memorial

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Loos Memorial claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Loos Memorial before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Loos Memorial ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Loos Memorial

In research: Loos Memorial appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Loos Memorial in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Loos Memorial is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1930, Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials, Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front), so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Loos Memorial outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Loos Memorial in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Loos Memorial means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Loos Memorial out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Loos Memorial in simple terms?

Why does Loos Memorial matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Loos Memorial?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Loos Memorial.