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Battle of the Somme (1916)

	Battle of Pozières - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Pozières was a two week struggle for the French village of Pozières, and the ridge on which it stands, during the middle stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme.
		The battle ended with the British forces in possession of the plateau north and east of the village and in a position to menace the German bastion of Thiepval from the rear.
		On 14 July, during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge, this southern section of the German second line was captured by the British Fourth Army of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Rawlinson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Pozieres (2626 words)

	Battle of the Somme (1916) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		One purpose of the battle was to draw German forces away from the battle of Verdun; however, by its end the losses on the Somme had exceeded those at Verdun.
		In one significant respect, the Battle of the Somme was a major strategic success for the British as on 12 July, in response to the Somme fighting and the situation in the east, Falkenhayn called off the German offensive at Verdun.
		The attack, known as the battle of Bazentin Ridge, was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from Pozières, on the Albert–Bapaume road, southeast towards the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.
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	Battle of the Somme (1916) - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The battle is best remembered there for its first day, 1 July 1916, on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead — the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army.
		The axis of the advance was centred on the Roman road that ran from Albert in the west to Bapaume 12 miles (19 km) to the northeast.
		The British daily loss rate during the Battle of the Somme was 2,943 men, which exceeded the loss rate during the Third Battle of Ypres but was not as severe as the two months of the battle of Arras (4,076 per day) or the final Hundred Days offensive in 1918 (3,685 per day).
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	Battle of Pozieres
		The battle of Pozieres was one of a large number of separate battles that together made up the battle of the Somme.
		The battle for Pozieres was one of the early ‘increments’.
		Pozieres village, and its adjacent windmill, occupied the highest ground on the Thiepval-Ginchy ridge and was thus the key to the German defences in the whole area.
	www.defence.gov.au /army/ahu/HISTORY/Battles/Pozieres.htm (1029 words)

	Australian Military Units
		Pozieres, a small village in the Somme valley in France, was the scene of bitter and costly fighting for the 1st, 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions in mid 1916.
		The village was captured initially by the 1st Division on 23 July 1916.
		It too endured a massive artillery bombardment, and defeated a German counter-attack on 7 August; this was the last attempt by the Germans to retake Pozieres.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_72.asp (167 words)

	Pozieres
		Pozieres is a small town approximately 2 miles from Albert in the Somme valley.
		The Battle of Pozieres Ridge began in earnest on the 23 July 1916 with the British 30th Division attacking Guillemont, British 3rd Division attacking Delville Wood, The British 5th Division made an attack High Wood with the British 51st Division to complete the capture of High wood.
		After the bombardment of Pozieres, which had begun on the 19th and increased in volume until 23 July, 9th and 11th Battalions (3 Brigade), on the right, and 1st and 2nd Battalions (1 NSW Brigade) attacked at 12.30 a.m.
	members.optusnet.com.au /pasu/pozieres.htm (692 words)

	World War One Battles
		The battle is often regarded as demonstrating that the Royal Navy was technologically inferior to the German Navy.
		The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, which ran from 14-17 July 1916 and comprised part of the second phase of the Somme Offensive, was launched primarily by Reserve Army (twelve battalions) with Rawlinson's Fourth Army providing a further battalion, on a front extending from Longueval to Bazentin-le-Petit Wood.
		These battles, and those British and Commonwealth soldiers who gave their lives, are commemorated at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing, and at the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the world with nearly 12,000 graves.
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	Battle of Mouquet Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The battle of Mouquet Farm was the last of the battles in the Pozieres area involving the Australians.
		Having secured Pozieres, the plan was to push north-west along the ridge and render the enemy’s strong position at Thiepval untenable.
		The Australians began to be reinforced by the Canadians and, at dawn on the 5th September, the last Australian unit in the battle, the 49th Battalion, was relieved by the 16th Canadian Battalion.
	www.defence.gov.au /army/AHU/HISTORY/Battles/Mouquet_Farm.htm (2383 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Pozieres Ridge, 1916
		The Australian divisions of the I Anzac Corps, having served in Gallipoli, were primarily given the task of capturing the Pozieres Ridge, which had in fact been intended for capture on the first day of the Somme Offensive.
		They were assisted in the attack by the British 48th Division to the Australians' west, attacking from Ovillers towards the German left flank.
		A mere 200 yards separated the Australians from Pozieres Ridge, the attack's main objective, heavily defended by the securely entrenched German troops.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/pozieres.htm (359 words)

	Battle of the Somme: Chronology
		Rawlinson noted in his War Diary that the total number of men involved at the start of the battle were about 500,000, that there were 1,500 guns of which 450 were of a large calibre, 150,000 rounds were fired in the day and 50,000 in the night into the enemy front lines.
		Pozieres is almost entirely in Allied hands and the British push along the Albert-Bapaume road.
		The Battle of the Ancre begins on a foggy morning and Beaumont Hamel is stormed by the British.
	www.ramsdale.org /timeline.htm (4086 words)

	GGFG - Governor General's Foot Guards
		A Battle Honour is an Honorary Distinction granted by Royal Authority in commemoration of War Services that are shown in CFP 200 (Flags, Ensigns, Colours, Pennants, and Honours for the Canadian Forces).
		Battle Honours, in a Guards Regiment, are displayed on both the Queen's Colour and the Regimental Colour.
		The campaigns, battles and actions that the Brigade of Guards deck the Colours are varied from Regiment to Regiment.
	www.ggfg.ottawa.on.ca /bhonours.htm (813 words)

	The Battle for Pozieres 1916
		For their part the 34th Division was ordered to advance along the main road, capturing La Boisselle, and on to within just under a kilometre from Pozieres.
		The sticking point in the north was Thiepval and by 11 July 1916 it was apparent to Rawlinson that it was neither possible to exploit the advances to the east nor capture Thiepval whilst the village of Pozieres remained in German hands.
		They managed to get up past Contalmaison on their right and reached the outskirts of Pozieres where they were repulsed by the defenders.
	www.webmatters.net /france/ww1_pozieres.htm (422 words)

	Pozieres, the killing fields of WW!
		The village of Pozieres before it was obliterated in 1916.
		Among the Victorians at Pozieres was Albert Jacka, Australia's first VC winner of WW1 at Gallipoli, whose 14th Battalion bore the brunt of a just such a German counter-attack.
		Pozieres was pounded more furiously than before, until by four in the afternoon it seemed to onlookers scarcely possible that humanity could have endured such an ordeal.
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		==Pozières and Mouquet Farm== :''Main articles: [[Battle of Pozières]] andndash; [[Battle of Mouquet Farm]]'' No significant progress was made in the northern sector in the first few weeks of July.
		If the losses from [[Battle of FromellesFromelles]] on [[19 July]] are included, Australia had sustained more casualties in six weeks in France than they had in the eight months of the [[Battle of Gallipoli]].
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	Australian Military Units
		It fought in its first major battle at Pozières in August, defending ground previously captured by the 2nd Australian Division.
		The 45th Battalion was in reserve for the 4th Division's first major action of 1917 - the first battle of Bullecourt - and was not committed to the attack.
		It was, however, heavily engaged during the battle of Messines in June, and suffered commensurate casualties.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_11232.asp (479 words)

	Articles - Thomas Blamey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When the Australian forces moved to France in 1916, Blamey returned to the 1st Division staff and was involved in the Battle of PoziÃ¨res.
		Blamey briefly held battalion and brigade command posts in late 1916 and early 1917 but as an experienced staff officer was considered too valuable for a combat post.
		MacArthur had a low opinion of Australian fighting men, and was highly criticial of their performance during the early battles in New Guinea.
	www.kimia-sains.com /articles/Thomas_Blamey (880 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The division fought as mounted infantry throughout the Middle East, including Egypt, the Sinai (Romani, Magdhaba and Rafa) and Palestine (First and Second battles of Gaza, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Jericho, Es Salt, Megiddo and Amman) and Syria.
		Australian and New Zealand Divisions were involved in a number of engagements during the Battle of the Somme (1916) while components of British corps but it was only during the Battle of Pozieres, 23rd July 1916, that an Anzac formation participated as a whole.
		At Villers-Bretonneux, in the 1918 First Battles of the Somme, the "Anzac" designation ceased to be used to represent an army corps containing Australian and New Zealand divisions.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Anzac (754 words)

	Memorials erected for the 5 AIF Divisions
		During the battle for Pozieres in July 1916, the 1st Division were under continuous heavy artillery fire.
		Sacred to the memory of the 10,000 members of the Australian Imperial Force who were killed or wounded in the two battles of Bullecourt, April-May 1917, and to the Australian dead and their comrades-in-arms who lie here forever in the soil of France.
		There were two major battles at Bullecourt in April and May 1917 in which some 10,000 members of the Australian Imperial Force were killed or wounded.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-memorials/divisions.htm (769 words)

	George Butterworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At the outbreak of World War I, Butterworth signed up for service.
		He was killed by a sniper in 1916 at Pozières leading a raid during the Battle of the Somme.
		His body was not recovered, and his name may be found on the Thiepval memorial, near the site of the Somme.
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	R. Radford
		The Battle of Pozieres (third phase of the Battle of the Somme)
		The Battle of Le Transloy (eighth phase of the Battle of the Somme).
		This was followed in 1917, with the First Battle of the Scarpe, which was the first phase of the Arras Offensive and Rowland's final Battle of Arleux.
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	Battle of Ypres
		The second Battle for Ypres (April to May 1915) opened with a Chlorine gas attack by the Germans, This opened a large gap in the British lines, But the Germans were unable to exploit the situation, before the British and Canadians had filled the gap with reserves.
		On May 13th 1915, during the second Battle of Ypres, the British line gave way before the tremendous bombardment of the enemy, and as the huge high explosive shells burst on the parapets, completely shattering the trenches, survivors of the ordeal hastily retired.
		On October 31st 1914, the day of the great German onslaught in the first battle of Ypres, Lieutenant James Anson Otho Brooke, of the 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders, was sent across with a message from the right flank to the centre of the defence.
	www.first-world-war.com /battle_of_ypes.htm (3291 words)

	The Australians at Pozieres 1916
		What has become known as the Battle of Pozieres Ridge was the first major battle in France for I ANZAC.
		Situated on the highest part of the plateau the village was heavily fortified with numerous machine gun posts including one later named by the Australians as Gibraltar on the western edge of the village.
		By the time the Australians commenced there attack on it on 4 August it was a pile of rubble.
	www.webmatters.net /france/ww1_pozieres2.htm (594 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
		The Anzac Mounted Division (originally the Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division) fought as cavalry throughout the Middle East, including Egypt, the Sinai (Romani, Magdhaba and Rafah) and Palestine (First, Second and Third Battle of Gaza, Beersheba, Jerusalem, Jericho, Es Salt, Megiddo and Amman).
		Australian and New Zealand Divisions were involved in a number of the Battles of the Somme, July to November, 1916, while components of British corps but it was only during the Battle of Pozieres[?], 23rd July 1916, that an Anzac formation participated.
		2nd ANZAC (Australian 3rd and 4th Divisions, New Zealand Division plus the British 25th Division) fought in the Battle of Messines[?], July 1917, which was a prelude to an Allied offensive from the Ypres salient.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anzac.html (481 words)

	Page Perce
		On Monday Fritz bombarded the village of Pozieres where our front line was and he was using some big shells too, sometimes and we would see great branches of trees go hurtling skywards.
		Buckley one other officer, who seemed to go through it all without flinching and Cpl. Jagow our MG corporal, who through his ready wit and pleasant smile had vanished, yet kept cool and acted deliberately and stuck to his gun and his men until he was killed later in the day.
		The English papers are giving a rather incorrect version of the battle of Pozieres; making out it was only after terrible fierce hand to hand fighting that the village was taken.
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