In Memory of
FREDERICK THOMAS HOLLANDS
Corporal
12766
10th Bn. formerly 9th Bn., Gloucestershire Regiment
who died on
Saturday, 23rd March 1918. Age 34.
| Additional Information: |
Son of Frederick William and Ellen Hollands,
of Hartlip, Sittingbourne, Kent. |
Commemorative Information
| Memorial: |
POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France |
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: |
Panel 40 and 41
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| Location: |
Pozieres is a village 6 kilometres north-east
of the town of Albert. The Memorial encloses Pozieres British Cemetery
which is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the
main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres. On the road frontage is an
open arcade terminated by small buildings and broken in the middle by
the entrance and gates. Along the sides and the back, stone tablets are
fixed in the stone rubble walls bearing the names of the dead grouped
under their Regiments. It should be added that, although the memorial
stands in a cemetery of largely Australian graves, it does not bear any
Australian names. The Australian soldiers who fell in France and whose
graves are not known are commemorated on the National Memorial at
Villers-Bretonneux.
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| Historical Information: |
The Memorial relates to the period of crisis
in March and April 1918 when the Fifth Army was driven back by
overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and to the
succeeding period of four months during which there was built up, behind
the new front, of the army, which on the 8 August 1918 began the Advance
to Victory. 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 fell in France during the Fifth Army area retreat 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. |
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