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    The Pozières Memorial is a World War I memorial, located near the commune of Pozières, in the Somme department of France, and unveiled in August 1930...
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    The Battle of Pozières (23 July – 3 September 1916) took place in northern France around the village of Pozières, during the Battle of the Somme. The costly...
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    Albert and Bapaume, on the Pozières ridge. Southwest of the village on Departmental Road 929 is the Pozières Memorial and Pozieres British Cemetery. The cemetery...
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    taken by other memorials to the missing of the war, such as those at Loos, Pozières and Arras. The inscription of names on the memorial is reserved for...
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    Neuve-Chapelle Indian Memorial Pozières Memorial (British World War I memorial) Verdun Memorial Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial (Australian World...
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    British Army fought. Memorial in Anglo-French cemetery behind the Thiepval Memorial. Pozières welcomes Australians. As one enters Pozières one is greeted by...
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    represented by the Conservative's James Wild MP since 2010. Burnham Thorpe's war memorial is a stone latin cross located inside All Saint's Churchyard, it has been...
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    bomb which blew him up along with his gun. Columbine is named on the Pozières Memorial, in the Somme department of France, to the missing of the Fifth Army...
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    Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square Gardens, on Tower Hill in London, England. The memorials, one...
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    The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the...
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    Commonwealth War Graves Commission (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
    accessed 26 Sep 2013 Archived 27 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine "Pozieres Memorial". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Archived from the original on...
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    was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry during the fighting at Pozières in the First World War, and died in the Battle of the Somme. Butterworth...
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    McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster Tower Vis-en-Artois Memorial...
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    The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is a memorial site in France dedicated to the commemoration of Dominion of Newfoundland forces members who were...
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    Douaumont Ossuary (category World War I memorials in France)
    The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the...
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    The Verdun Memorial is a war memorial to commemorate the Battle of Verdun, fought in 1916 as part of the First World War. It is situated on the battlefield...
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    dogged, bearded French soldier was widely used in propaganda and war memorials. The stereotype of the poilu was of bravery and endurance, but not always...
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  • the most costly battles in military history. Since then, cemeteries and memorials have been established for casualties on both sides, as well as for significant...
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  • The Mametz Wood Memorial commemorates an engagement of the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army during the First Battle of the Somme in France in...
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    Grove Road Cemetery, Harrogate (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
    Sorby, remain. The cemetery contains more than thirty military graves and memorials of those who died in service, including those who did heroic deeds, those...
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    recorded on memorials such as the Menin Gate at Ypres and Sir Edwin Lutyens's memorial to the missing at Thiepval. Also on the Pozieres Memorial to the missing...
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    Burnham Market's war memorial is a stone celtic cross located on the marketplace which has been Grade II listed since 2018. The memorial lists war dead from...
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    atmospheric re-entry material hitting the rigs, was too great. Brancaster's war memorial is located in St Mary the Virgin's Churchyard and is a stone Celtic cross...
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    was killed ((his body was never found and he is commemorated on the Pozières Memorial.) The counter-attack gained a temporary success, but at 17.00 the...
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    The Delville Wood South African National Memorial is a World War I memorial, located in Delville Wood, near the commune of Longueval, in the Somme department...
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  • commemorated on the Pozières Memorial, in the Somme department of France, to the missing of the Fifth Army; and on the war memorials in Macclesfield & Congleton...
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    in 1927, forms a memorial to the Ulster men and women who served and died in the Great War. He is also named on the Pozières Memorial, in the Somme department...
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    June 1925, he unveiled the war memorial in Memorial Avenue, Worksop. On 4 August 1930, he unveiled the Pozières Memorial. Smith-Dorrien died on 12 August...
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    has been Grade II listed since 1962. The church's lychgate serves as a memorial to local men who died in the First World War whilst inside their is a surviving...
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    The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is the main memorial to Australian military personnel killed on the Western Front during World War...
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