Pozières Memorial, Pozières

Name: Pozières Memorial
Address: Pozières, France

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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. It lists the names of 14,657 British and South African soldiers of the Fifth and Fourth Armies with no known grave who were killed between 21 March 1918 and 7 August 1918, during the German advance known as the Spring Offensive, and the period of Allied consolidation and recovery that followed. The final date is determined by the start of the period known as the Advance to Victory on 8 August. ()

Local name: Mémorial de Pozières Unveiled: 1930Coordinates: 50°2'3"N, 2°42'54"E

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Pozières Memorial – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Thiepval Memorial, Connaught Cemetery, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Ancre British Cemetery.

1.7 miNW
Monuments and statues, Memorial
Thiepval Memorial, Thiepval
45 min walk • The Thiepval Memorial, towering above the rolling countryside of the Somme in Authuille, France, stands as a poignant tribute to the missing of the Somme, commemorating more than 72,000 soldiers of the British and South African forces who died during the First World...
2.3 miNW
Cemetery
Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval
59 min walk • The Connaught Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War I.
3.5 miE
Cemetery
Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval
88 min walk • Caterpillar Valley Cemetery is a World War I Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Longueval, France. The cemetery is named after Caterpillar Valley which was the name given by the British army to the long valley which rises eastwards to the high ground at Guillemont.
3.2 miNW
Cemetery
Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel
81 min walk • The Ancre British Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War I.
2.2 miW
Cemetery
Authuile Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Authuille
57 min walk • The Authuile Military Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the First World War. The cemetery contains soldiers who died on a variety of dates in several battles near the French village of Authuile.
3.6 miSW
Cemetery
Communal Cemetery Extension, Albert
93 min walk • The Albert Communal Cemetery Extension is a war cemetery with dead from both World War I and World War II located in the French Commune of Albert in the Somme Region.
2.5 miW
Cemetery
Aveluy Wood Cemetery, Authuille
65 min walk • The Aveluy Wood Cemetery is a cemetery located in the Somme region of France commemorating British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War I.
2.1 miS
Cemetery
Fricourt German war cemetery
53 min walk • Fricourt German war cemetery is near the village of Fricourt, near Albert, in the French département of the Somme. Most of the fallen were members of the Imperial German 2nd Army.
2.4 miNW
Tower, Memorial
Ulster Tower, Thiepval
62 min walk • The Ulster Tower, located in Thiepval, France, is Northern Ireland's National War Memorial. It was one of the first memorials to be erected on the Western Front and commemorates the men of the 36th Division and all those from Ulster who served in the First World War.
2.9 miE
Cemetery
London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval
76 min walk • The London Cemetery and Extension is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at High Wood near Longueval, France. It is the third largest of the Somme battlefield cemeteries, containing 3,872 World War I burials.
2.1 miNE
Battlefield, Monuments and statues, Memorial
Courcelette Memorial, Martinpuich
55 min walk • The Courcelette Memorial is a Canadian war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Canadian Corps in the final two and a half months of the infamous four-and-a-half-month-long Somme Offensive of the First World War.