Pozieres Memorial — Attraction in Péronne

Grand Memorial Site for British & Irish fallen soldiers I visited Pozieres as my Great Grand Father is buried here. It was on my way between France & the UK so I thought, I really ought to stop by and pay my respects. He died at the age of 42 roughly 4 months before the end of the war, with three kids left in Liverpool, he was incorporated in an Irish regiment as born in Ireland (and was obviously a lot more Irish than English, even if living in Liverpool) the Dublin Fusillier. Lots of men are buried here for WWI so it is really emotional and impressive to see the number of names on each walls, and the number of graves. The site itself is really well maintained and looks very grand. We really appreciated the care the people take of this place. Highly...

Stunning memorial commemorating more than 14,000 of the missing, the men of the British Empire who fell in the Somme area between March and August 1918. Casualties of the German Spring Offensive and subsequent battles who have no known grave.

The memorial stands in open countryside, about a kilometre west of Pozières on the Bethune road. The front wall of the memorial is in an arcade style with an imposing gateway. The remaining three sides hold the panels containing the names of the missing. Enclosed within the four walls is the Pozières British Cemetery, the final resting place for more than 2,700 men, many of them from the original Somme battlefields...

A very well maintained cemetery to some of the fallen of WW1 . Walking from Albert gives one the sense of the distance the soldiers walked after disembarking from the train in Albert . It's also close to Mouquet Farm . Site of a battle involving the Australian troops . Lastly Thiepval you can see it in the distance should not be missed . RIP William Albert Barker 3 Battalion Toronto Regiment Killed in action on September 20, 1916 age 17 , buried in...