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1st Australian Division Memorial


The Memorial Commemorates the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men of the 1st Australian Division who fought in France and Belgium in 1916, 1917 and 1918. The Commemorative Tablet on the Memorial lists the Battle Honours for the 1st Australian Division:

POZIERES
MOUQUET FARM
LE BARQUE
THILLOY
BOURSIES
DEMICOURT
HERMIES
LAGNICOURT
BULLECOURT
3rd BATTLE OF YPRES
MENIN ROAD
BROODSEINDE RIDGE
PASSCHENDAELE
BATTLE OF THE LYS
2nd BATTLE OF THE SOMME
LIHONS
CHUIGNOLLES
HINDENBURGLINE












During the last week of July 1916, shells fell in their thousands on Australian Soldiers in Pozières, a village they had captured from the Germans.
I had not the slightest idea where our lines or the enemys were, and the shells were coming at us from, it seemed, three directions 
Written by Australian Lieutenant John Raws.

Pozières was reduced to rubble and shattered earth, but here the men of the 1st Australian Division later built their Memorial in France. They remembered the tenacity with which they had held their ground and the Comrades who had perished in the horror of those bombardments. 

A viewing platform has been constructed to enable visitors to have a magnificent view across the Somme Battlefields; information panels explain about the site to visitors and the part played by the 1st Australian Division in the Battle here.


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