Pozières - site of the former windmill

Written by Mike
Pozières - site of the former windmill.  20 March 1994.. (Ref 94-108-02) Pozières - site of the former windmill. 20 March 1994.. (Ref 94-108-02)

In the fighting at Pozières, around the Windmill that originally stood on this site and northwards along the ridge towards Mouquet Farm, the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) suffered more than 23,000 casualties in litle more than six weeks, between 23 July and 5 September 1916.

Of these casualties, nearly 7,000 were killed, had died of wounds or were ‘missing’.

Mike

Mike

Mike McCormac has been a photographer since about ten years old.  He's a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and lives in a village in the hills near Paphos in Cyprus.

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