Battle of Pozières
The Battle of Pozières was a two-week struggle for the French village of Pozières and the ridge on which it stands, and the subsequent fight for Mouquet Farm to the north of the village, during the middle stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Though British divisions were involved in most phases of the fighting, Pozières is primarily remembered as an Australian battle. The fighting ended with the Allied forces in possession of the plateau north and east of the village, in a position to menace the German bastion of Thiepval from the rear. The cost had been very large for both sides and in the words of Australian official historian Charles Bean, the Pozières ridge "is more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth."
15th (Scottish) Infantry Division
19th (Western) Division
1st Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
1st Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
23rd Division (United Kingdom)
2nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
Albert Jacka
Alby Lowerson
Alfred Bessell-Browne
Archie Barwick
Arthur Blackburn
Arthur Samuel Allen
Bede Kenny
Bill McCann
Brudenell White
Carl Jess
Cedric Howell
Charles Brand (general)
Charles Rosenthal
Claud Castleton
Dominic McCarthy
Edgar Towner
Edmund Drake-Brockman
Frank Berryman
Frederick Birks
George Alan Vasey
George Howell (VC)
Henry Dalziel
Herbert Collett
IX Corps (German Empire)
Iven Mackay
Jack Stevens
James Cannan
James Newland
John Gellibrand
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Battle of Pozières
The Battle of Pozières was a two-week struggle for the French village of Pozières and the ridge on which it stands, and the subsequent fight for Mouquet Farm to the north of the village, during the middle stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Though British divisions were involved in most phases of the fighting, Pozières is primarily remembered as an Australian battle. The fighting ended with the Allied forces in possession of the plateau north and east of the village, in a position to menace the German bastion of Thiepval from the rear. The cost had been very large for both sides and in the words of Australian official historian Charles Bean, the Pozières ridge "is more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth."
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1916-09-03
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View across the Pozières plateau
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