The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An aerial view of Pozieres after extensive artillery bombarded by both sides during the First Battle of the Somme. The 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions were at the time in possession of the village and the O.G. (old German) Lines. An aerial photograph of the village before the British attack is also held as J00275. Both photographs, along with a key to the British and German positions before the attack, were published in the Photographic Record of the War, Volume 12 of the Official History of Australian in the War of 1914-18. See plates 203 to 205.
A British aerial photograph of the village of Pozieres taken on 23 June 1916 before the British attack and the subsequent artillery bombardment by both sides during the bitterly contested attacks and
A British aerial photograph of the village of Pozieres taken on 23 June 1916 before the British attack and the subsequent artillery bombardment by both sides during the bitterly contested attacks and
An aerial view the Somme battlefield with village of Becourt surrounded by trees in the foreground. The village of Pozieres, astride the Albert to Bapaume road, is marked by the arrow. This region was
An aerial view showing the O.G. (Old German) lines behind Pozieres before bombardment.
The devastation on the site of the church in a village destroyed during the Somme Offensive. Between 23 July and early September 1916, the 1st, 2nd and 4th Divisions between them launched 19 attacks
Pozieres, France. A destroyed British Mark I tank belonging to C Company, Heavy Machine Gun Corps (later the Tank Corps) on the battlefield at Pozieres. It was one of seven vehicles assigned to the Ca
The village of Pozieres held up the left flank of the Anglo-French offensive in the first battle of the Somme in July 1916. After being attacked several times without success it became a major objecti