Pozières
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Pozières is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
The tank monument in Pozières
A fatigue party from the Australian 7th Brigade (Australian 2nd Division) pass the former German bunker known as "Gibraltar" at the western end of Pozières, 28 August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme. The infantry are laden with empty sandbags, heading towards the fighting around Mouquet Farm, north of Pozières.
The view from Centre Way trench towards Mouquet Farm, August 1916
Mouquet Farm and its defences, June 1916
George Butterworth
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George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.
Pozières
…fought at Pozières, the Australians suffered over 5,000 killed, wounded or taken prisoner. One of those killed, on 5 August, was the English composer George Butterworth, and in 2008 the road between the town and Martinpuich was renamed Chemin George Butterworth (George Butterworth Lane); ). Communes of the Somme…
George Butterworth, c. 1914
Blue plaque commemorating Butterworth's childhood home in Driffield Terrace, York
Memorial to George Butterworth at the Pozières Memorial, inscribed: One of "the lads that will die in their glory and never be old"
Plaque, Deerhurst Church