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Pozieres British
Cemetery,
Orvillers-La Boisselle, Somme, France. There are 2,760 Commonwealth servicemen
buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Some 1,380 are unidentified but there
are special memorials to 23 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.
The cemetery is enclosed by the Pozieres Memorial, which commemorates over 14,000
casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have
no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918. Information
sourced from Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org. |