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2 unusual facts about Pozières


Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson

The heaviest defeats were in Rawlinson's own sector, in front of Pozières and Thiepval.

Livens Projector

On 25 July 1916 at Ovillers-la-Boisselle during the Battle of the Somme, Z Company used 80 projectors when the Australians were due to attack Pozières.


Bullecourt 1917, Jean and Denise Letaille museum

In 2008, the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs wants to upgrade seven sites showing the Australian forces during the First World War (Ypres and Passchendaele in Belgium; Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont-Saint-Quentin, Pozières and Villers-Bretonneux).


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