Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Mémorial de Pozières
Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- En totalité, le mémorial britannique de Pozières (cad. Y 10) : inscription par arrêté du 27 octobre 2016
- Protection dates
- 2016/10/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- nécropole
- Main period of construction
- 20e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Ovillers-la-Boisselle
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.03413, 2.71512
- Mérimée reference
- PA80000089
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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryNational Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1856 map "Dept. Des De La Somme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le mémorial de Pozières à Ovillers-La Boisselle, dit aussi « cimetière des colonnes », est dédié aux morts des IVe et Ve armées britanniques. Il contient les corps de plus de 2700 soldats, principalement britanniques et australiens, et fut inauguré en 1930. Dessiné par l'architecte britannique William Harrison Cowlishaw (1869-1957), avec des sculptures de Laurence A. Turner (1864-1957), il consiste en un cimetière entouré d'une vaste colonnade. Une grande croix, située au milieu de l'un des côtés du cimetière, domine l'ensemble.
English translation
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History
The memorial at Pozières at Ovillers-La Boisselle, also called the "cemetery of columns", is dedicated to the dead of the IVth and Vth British armies. It contains the bodies of more than 2700 soldiers, mainly British and Australian, and was inaugurated in 1930. Designed by British architect William Harrison Cowlishaw (1869-1957), with sculptures by Laurence A. Turner (1864-1957), it consists of a cemetery surrounded by a vast colonnade. A large cross, situated in the middle of one of the sides of the cemetery, dominates the whole.
Nearby in the register
- Entonnoir de mines de La Boissellechamp de bataille2 mi
- Mémorial britannique de Thiepval dit Memorial to the Missingnécropole2 mi
- Église de Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativitééglise2 mi
- Mill Road Cemeterynécropole2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.