Memorial AIF Mouquet Farm

Mouquet Farm was the site of nine separate attacks by three Australian divisions between 8 August and 3 September 1916. The farm occupied a dominant position on a ridge extending northwest from the destroyed and much-contested village of Pozieres. Although the farm buildings themselves were reduced to rubble, strong stone cellars were left underground and incorporated into the German defenses. The attacks on Mouquet Farm cost the 1st, 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions more than 11,000 casualties, and not one succeeded in capturing and holding it. The British advance eventually bypassed Mouquet Farm, leaving it an isolated outpost. It inevitably fell on September 27, 1916.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman