Pozières ([pɔz.jɛːʁ];Picard:Pozière) is acommune in theSommedepartment inHauts-de-France in northernFrance.

Pozières
Commune
The tank monument in Pozières
Location of Pozières
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Coordinates:50°02′24″N02°43′30″E / 50.04000°N 2.72500°E /50.04000; 2.72500
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Péronne
Canton	Albert
Intercommunality	Pays du Coquelicot
Government
• Mayor(2020–2026)	Dominique Bierwald[1]
Area 1	3.24 km2 (1.25 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	262
• Density	81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	80640 /80300
Elevation	115–161 m (377–528 ft) (avg. 163 m or 535 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The commune is situated on the D929 road, 34 kilometres (21 mi) northeast ofAmiens betweenAlbert andBapaume, on the Pozières ridge.

Southwest of the village on Departmental Road 929 is the Pozières Memorial and Pozieres British Cemetery. The cemetery. A total of 14,720 men, mostly Australians, are buried here. Unidentified dead number 1,380. The memorial was dedicated in August 1930.^[3]

The village was completely destroyed inWorld War I during what became theBattle of Pozières (23 July–7 August 1916), which was part of theBattle of the Somme. The village was subsequently rebuilt, and is now the site of severalwar memorials. TheAustralian flag flies over Pozières in recognition of the sacrifice of theANZACs in the Battle of Pozières.^{[citation needed]} Amongst the British and other Commonwealth forces who fought at Pozières, the Australians suffered over 5,000 killed, wounded or taken prisoner.

One of those killed, on 5 August, was the English composerGeorge Butterworth, and in 2008^{[citation needed]} the road between the town andMartinpuich was renamedChemin George Butterworth (George Butterworth Lane);50°02′28″N2°43′59″E / 50.041172°N 2.733112°E /50.041172; 2.733112).^[5]

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  A fatigue party from the Australian 7th Brigade (Australian 2nd Division) pass the former German bunker known as "Gibraltar" at the western end of Pozières, 28 August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme. The infantry are laden with empty sandbags, heading towards the fighting around Mouquet Farm, north of Pozières.
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  The view from Centre Way trench towardsMouquet Farm, August 1916
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  Map showing Mouquet Farm and the German defensive fortifications from Thiepval to Courcelette, July 1916
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  Mouquet Farm and its defences, June 1916^[a]
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  Mouquet Farm and its defences, September 1916^[b]

• Communes of the Somme department
• Pozières Memorial

• Pozieres in WWI