The Somme tourist board

The Franco-Australian association “Digger Cote 160” is organising a major event in Pozières on the theme of life at the front and behind the lines during the Great War.

"At the going down of the sun", in the heat of July, the Battle of the Somme rings out once more over the plain. Australians, British, Canadians, Germans face each other in bloody combat. Pozières, the theatre of this frenzied struggle, brings the soul of the Great War into the limelight, as behind the larger history hide the daily lives of those who shared joy and misery in those hours of trouble : the Australian Captain Percy Cherry, who from the hands of a mortally wounded German officer received a packet of letters addressed to his family; the destiny of two Australian soldiers linked to the crucifix and the bell of the church; the attacks of the first tanks; the period of the Canadian Piper James Richardson in Courcelette; the tale of the Scottish footballers of the 16th Royal Scots, better known as McCrae's Battalion, who took part in the liberation of Contalmaison; and the return home of those soldiers who "looked like men who had been in Hell". You can relive so many astonishing scenes tanks to the Digger Côte 160 Association and its volunteers, who all shine a more human light on the Battle of the Somme.