The POZIERES MEMORIAL relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that followed before the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918.
The Memorial commemorates over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918. The Corps and Regiments most largely represented are The Rifle Brigade with over 600 names, The Durham Light Infantry with approximately 600 names, the Machine Gun Corps with over 500, The Manchester Regiment with approximately 500 and The Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery with over 400 names.
Lewisham Residents on these memorials include:
- Bashford, Edgar
- Burton, Frank
- Button, George John
- Crisp,George
- Darrington, William James
- Edger, Arthur Henry
- England, Harold Edward
- Featherstone, Harold Leonard
- Gaines, Cyril Henry
- Giggins, Harold Herbert
- Gracey, Frederick George
- Hiscock, Herbert John
- Jolly, William Alfred
- Perlman, Frederick George
- Remington, Richard George
- Rowland, Percy Alfred
- Scoones, Archibald John
- Sellick, Albert
- Spalding, Henry George
- Steggell, Percy George
- Veal, Edward Arthur John
- Wannop,Sidney Clarence
- Warman, William
- West, George Stanley
- Wyles, Arthur George Edy