A new memorial to mark 100 years since the start of World War One is being inaugurated in northern France with the aim of focusing attention, not on the nations involved, but the individuals, reports the BBC.
Wilfred Owen's name is there. So is fellow poet Isaac Rosenberg's.
There are rows of Smiths, and Wrights, and even some Camerons, but also Fleisches, Ernsts and Mullers.
Almost 600,000 names - friends and former enemies - mingled together for the first time on a ring of panels, in strict alphabetical order. No ranks, no nationalities; just a dizzying list of the human stories that ended on France's northern battlefields.
In a land dotted with war memorials this new "ring of remembrance" near Arras reorders the memory of World War One.
One hundred years on, the mood here is not of a national loss, but a European one.
A memorial that fits the era we live in, say its creators, reflecting Europe's current and remarkable period of unity and peace.
It also honours the sense expressed by soldiers at the time, they say, of a shared experience and shared destiny with men from the other side.
One of the names on the panel belongs to Geert Hindricks, from the 3rd Hannover Infantry Regiment.
He described in a last letter to his wife how the German soldiers on the Western Front became friendly with their enemies in the British trench just 20m (65ft) away, warning each other when officers were passing by and sharing meat and cigarettes.
"When you think about it," he wrote, "it's a sad affair when there's no animosity between the locals and the soldiers, and only those at the top can't agree on anything."