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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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    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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    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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    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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