Pozières
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Somme | |
| Arrondissement | Péronne | |
| Canton | Albert | |
| Community association | Pays du Coquelicot | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 2 ' N , 2 ° 43' E | |
| height | 115-161 m | |
| surface | 3.24 km 2 | |
| Residents | 266 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 82 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 80300 | |
| INSEE code | 80640 | |
| Website | Official website | |
Pozières is a French municipality with 266 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Somme in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the community association Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot .
location
The village is on the D929 between Albert and Bapaume .
history
During the First World War , the village was completely destroyed. In July 1916, the village was in the middle of the Battle of the Somme , which claimed thousands of victims on all sides, including 5,000 dead from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps . On August 21, 1918, the village was stormed by the 373 Infantry Regiment .
Memorial sites
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Today, numerous military cemeteries and memorials remind of the war. In front of the eastern entrance to the village there is a memorial for the Australian units on the D929 on the site of an old windmill, as well as a monument for the armored units used here for the first time. In the village, a café offers a small exhibition on local war events. To the north-west of the village , the Thiepval memorial erected as a large triumphal arch for soldiers of the British and South African army units towers over the landscape on the road to Thiepval .
In honor of the fallen German soldiers, the Thiepval barracks in Tübingen was named after the hamlet of Thiepval. There a stone tablet reminds of the fighting.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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| Residents | 278 | 281 | 254 | 279 | 276 | 244 | 236 |
