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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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    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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    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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    Australia, commemorating the famous World War I Battle of Pozières. The grave accent in Pozières is omitted as Queensland Government policy on place naming...
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  • Australian First World War veteran and the last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières. Lying about his age, he enlisted on 6 September 1915, aged 16, and on...
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    Pozières–Thiepval road, south of Grandcourt and to the south-west of Courcelette, about 1.1 mi (1.7 km) north-west of the high ground near Pozières....
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    which he was awarded the VC. On the night of the 28/29 July 1916 near Pozières, France, during a night attack the infantry was temporarily driven back...
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    Anglo-French cemetery behind the Thiepval Memorial. Pozières welcomes Australians. As one enters Pozières one is greeted by a painting of an Aussie soldier...
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    Pozières. This was the most important attack yet expected of Gough. Gough had to be dissuaded from launching 1st Australian Division against Pozières...
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    second phase, the Fourth Army was to take the German second position, from Pozières to the Ancre and then the second position south of the Albert–Bapaume Road...
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    entered the Battle of Pozières as reinforcements for the 1st Infantry Brigade. Late in the evening it had advanced into Pozières and was established on...
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    Front in Belgium and France. Between 9 and 12 August 1916 at Mouquet Farm, Pozières, during four days of very heavy fighting, Private O'Meara repeatedly went...
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    village of Pozières, at which time the Australian 1st Division entered the fray in the Battle of Pozières. The German positions at Pozières were known...
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    and next day returned to the line at Bazentin-le-Petit. The Battle of Pozières Ridge was just beginning, and III Corps was attacking towards High Wood...
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    on the north of the D 929 road, north-east of Aveluy and south-west of Pozières. The constituent village of La Boisselle, which had 35 houses in 1914,...
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    battalions of the regiment fought at Contalmaison, Bazentin-le-Petit, Ovillers, Pozières, the Leipzig Redoubt, High Wood, Guillemont, Morval, and on the Ancre....
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    Loos Memorial Mametz Wood Memorial McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster...
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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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    in Limousin destroyed in the Second World War and later rebuilt nearby. Pozières (located in the Département of Somme) Zone rouge (First World War) March...
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    in Australian history due to the high number of casualties. Battle of Pozières 23 July—7 August British and Australian forces take and hold town from...
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  • divisions to take the village of Pozières. Due to the casualties sustained by the Australian 1st Division's attack at Pozières on 23 July, it was replaced...
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    a 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...
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    transferred to the Pozières sector of the Somme offensive. Jacka's division, on 23 July 1916, was involved in the attack of Pozières planned by Major General...
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    Loos Memorial Mametz Wood Memorial McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster...
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    Loos Memorial Mametz Wood Memorial McCrae's Battalion Great War Memorial Pozières Memorial Quéant Road Cemetery Soissons Memorial Thiepval Memorial Ulster...
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  • July the brigade returned to the line at Bazentin-le-Petit. The Battle of Pozières Ridge was just beginning, and III Corps was attacking towards High Wood...
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    1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre...
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    1st, 2nd and 4th Divisions became tied down in actions at the Battle of Pozières and Mouquet Farm. In around six weeks, the operations caused 28,000 Australian...
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    to last through to November, did not begin until September at Battle of Pozières and lasted through to October. It was on the Somme that the red patch was...
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  • Loos, Somme 1916-18, Albert 1916-18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Battle of Pozières, Battle of Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Ancre Heights...
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