Australian Memorial, Windmill Bunker site, Pozieres, France

The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British/Commonwealth army.

This video, in which I make several errors (I have left them in and added sub titles where needed)focuses on the Australian Memorial site close to the German windmill observation bunker.

Paired with the Gibralter observation bunker to the west of Pozieres, this observation point, on a slightly raised plateau, gave the German Army a significant advantage over the advancing Commonwealth soldiers (Australian in this area).

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• pozieres
• bunker
• theipval
• windmill
• somme
• austalian
• memorial

[bendunn1]

interesting video but the commentary is wrong