3642 x 4705 px | 30,8 x 39,8 cm | 12,1 x 15,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2009
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Contemporary World War One illustration of Australian troops capturing a German machine-gun position in an improvised fort in the French village of Pozieres. The Battle of Pozieres was a struggle for control of the strategically important village and the ridge on which it stands during the middle stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. British troops were engaged in most phases of the fighting but Pozieres is mainly remembered as an Australian battle. Allied forces eventually took control of the plateau north and east of the village but the cost to Australian forces was immense - more men were lost in the battle over a six-week period than in the whole Gallipoli Campaign. The sketch, entitled "House-to-House Fighting in Fortified Pozieres", appeared in The War Illustrated periodical in August 1916. The artist was Stanley L Wood (1866 – 1928).
