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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on the Pozières ridge. Southwest of the village on Departmental Road 929 is the Pozières Memorial and Pozieres British Cemetery. The cemetery. A total...
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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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which the British Army fought. Memorial in Anglo-French cemetery behind the Thiepval Memorial. Pozières welcomes Australians. As one enters Pozières one is...
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Louverval Military Cemetery and Cambrai Memorial Commonwealth military cemetery and memorial: Pozières British Cemetery and Pozières Memorial Commonwealth...
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village of Pozieres. Bazentin was held by the Germans until 14 July 1916, when the British 3rd and 7th Divisions captured it and the British 21st Division...
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Attwood Torrens (category British military personnel killed in World War I)
Pozières on 8 December 1916 while running across open ground in an attempt to move his men to safety. He is buried in the Pozières British Cemetery....
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village of Pozieres. Bazentin was held by the Germans until 14 July 1916, when the British 3rd and 7th Divisions captured it and the British 21st Division...
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was killed in action on 6 August 1916 at Pozieres, Somme, France and was interred at Pozieres British Cemetery. On 24 April 2015, as part of the commemoration...
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was killed in action on 6 August 1916 at Pozieres, Somme, France and was interred at Pozieres British Cemetery. The First World War Memorial is situated...
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1st Warwickshire Volunteer Artillery (category Use British English from November 2022)
while moving bis battery to a safer position. He was buried at Pozières British Cemetery at Ovillers-la-Boisselle. Following a two-day bombardment, 61st...
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Tydd St Giles (category Use British English from January 2012)
on 11 March 1917. His remains lie in the Pozières British Cemetery, Somme, France the site of the Pozières Memorial. Harry Cragg - Of the 6th Battalion...
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Ovillers-la-Boisselle (redirect from Gordon Dump Cemetery)
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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in action, in France, on 9 August 1916. He was buried at the Pozieres British Cemetery, at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, in France. His name is located at panel...
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Grove Road Cemetery, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, was formerly known as Harrogate Cemetery. It was established in 1864 after the spa town expanded...
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Battle of the Somme (category Use British English from February 2016)
operation to secure the British right flank, while the centre advanced to capture the higher-lying areas of High Wood and Pozières. After the Battle of Albert...
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Martin O'Meara (category Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery)
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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Spencer Bassett (category Use British English from April 2016)
wounded and died at the rear of the frontlines. He was buried in Pozières British Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boisselle. Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League...
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in the back and killed instantly. Castleton is buried at Pozières British Military Cemetery, Somme, France, 3 miles NE of Albert (Plot IV, Row L, Grave...
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Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, locally known as the English War Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero di guerra inglese), is a Commonwealth military cemetery in Coriano,...
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Thiepval Memorial (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
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 those...
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Lionel Crouch (category British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme)
July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.: 9 He is buried at Pozières British Cemetery, Ovillers-la Boisselle, Somme, France, and remembered on the war...
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Post Office Rifles (category Use British English from June 2012)
Also on the Pozieres Memorial to the missing of 1918 and notably the Arras memorial. Men of the Rifles are buried in Bedford House Cemetery outside Ypres...
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Loos Memorial (redirect from Dud Corner Cemetery)
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...
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Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial (category Canadian military memorials and cemeteries)
lines, there are a number of memorials and cemeteries contained within the site. Officially opened by British Field Marshal Earl Haig in 1925, the memorial...
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Sai Wan War Cemetery is a military cemetery located in Chai Wan, Hong Kong which was built in 1946. The cemetery was created to commemorate soldiers of...
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Attack at Fromelles (section New cemetery)
carried out by British and Australian troops and was subsidiary to the Battle of the Somme. General Headquarters (GHQ) of the British Expeditionary Force...
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destroyed bridges. The nearby La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Communal Cemetery contains the graves of five British Empire soldiers (including one unidentified) who died...
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Battle of Bazentin Ridge (category Use British English from August 2019)
Hardecourt, Gruppe Armin (IV Corps), Hardecourt to Pozières and Gruppe Stein (XIV Reserve Corps) from Pozières across the Ancre to Gommecourt. Before the Fourth...
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission (category British military memorials and cemeteries)
acquire land for further cemeteries. Ware began with an agreement with France to build joint British and French cemeteries under the understanding that...
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