Pozières Memorial
| Pozières Memorial | |
|---|---|
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
View looking east across the cemetery, with colonnades of memorial panels in the background | |
| For forces of the United Kingdom and South Africa | |
| Unveiled | 4 August 1930 |
| Location | 50°02′03″N 02°42′55″E / 50.03417°N 2.71528°E |
| Designed by | William Harrison Cowlishaw Laurence A. Turner (sculptor) |
In memory of the officers and men of the Fifth and Fourth Armies who fought on the Somme battlefields 21 March – 7 August 1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave | |
| Official name | Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, vi |
| Designated | 2023 (45th session) |
| Reference no. | 1567-SE04 |
| Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. | |
The Pozières Memorial is a World War I memorial, located near the commune of Pozières, in the Somme department of France, and unveiled in August 1930. It lists the names of 14,657 British and South African soldiers of the Fifth and Fourth Armies with no known grave who were killed between 21 March 1918 and 7 August 1918, during the German advance known as the Spring Offensive (21 March–18 July), and the period of Allied consolidation and recovery that followed. The final date is determined by the start of the period known as the Advance to Victory on 8 August.
The memorial forms the perimeter walls of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery, which principally contains the bodies of men killed during the Battle of Pozières and the Battle of the Somme in 1916.