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Pozières Memorial and Military Cemetery

Pozières Memorial and Military Cemetery

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Pozières Memorial and Military Cemetery

Name: Pozières Memorial and Military Cemetery
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Location: Pozières, Péronne, Hauts-De-France, France

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1. Ulster Tower – Suzanne Castle loop from Arras

112km

04:54

820m

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2. Saint-Léger Church loop from Albert

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02:21

310m

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3. Moulin d'Achicourt – Tour d’Ulster loop from Arras

104km

05:12

750m

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Olivier Poulenard

June 10, 2021

The Pozières Memorial (in English, Pozières Memorial), also nicknamed military cemetery of the Columns, located on the territory of the municipality of Ovillers-la-Boisselle, in the department of the Somme, is a memorial and a military cemetery of the First World War.

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Armand

April 19, 2025

Inaugurated in 1930 at a location known as Red Cross Corner, the Pozières Memorial comprises a cemetery with 2,756 graves (1,828 British, 708 Australian, 219 Canadian, and 1 German), including 1,374 unidentified, as well as a memorial commemorating 14,649 victims (14,328 British and 321 South African) who have no known grave, who fell during the German counterattack of March 1918. Their names are engraved on the walls surrounding it.
Pozières was attacked on July 23, 1916, by the 1st Australian Division and the 48th (South Midland) Division, and was captured the following day. It was lost on March 24 and 25, 1918, during the major German advance, and recaptured by the 17th Division on August 24. Quote on the entrance pediment: "In memory of the officers and men of the 5th and 4th Armies who fought on the battlefields of the Somme between March 21 and August 7, 1918, and of those of their dead who have no known grave"

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Location: Pozières, Péronne, Hauts-De-France, France

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Pozières Memorial and Military Cemetery

1. Ulster Tower – Suzanne Castle loop from Arras

2. Saint-Léger Church loop from Albert

3. Moulin d'Achicourt – Tour d’Ulster loop from Arras

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