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Pozières

Crest in northern France held in World War I by the Germans; it was on rising ground which gave them a command of the Somme battlefield. It was captured by Australian troops during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916; by the time the Australians withdrew in September 1916, they had suffered 23,000 casualties.
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He has built up a large collection of Ernie's letters and postcards home from the Western Front and his two medals, and regularly visits his war grave in Pozieres, on the Somme, in France.
WE OWE THEM SO MUCH... Remember sacrifice past and present, says Denis by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
He is named on a memorial at Pozieres, near Amiens.
Snapshot that sparked a journey into the past; Goldmine of ... by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Lieutenant General Hobbs served as a commander of the First Division Artillery, both at ANZAC and Pozieres.
Soldiers' journeys: returning to the battlefields of the Great War by Scates, Bruce / Journal of the Australian War Memorial
 
 
 
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