pozires

Updated: July 21, 2025

It began with a night attack on August 13th and 14th. The attack lasted till the evening of the 18th, when the English wrote on our bodies in letters of blood, 'It is all over with you. A handful of half-mad, wretched creatures, worn out in body and mind, were all that was left of a whole battalion. We were that handful." The 117th Division by Pozires suffered very heavily.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told

By August 19th, owing to the large number of casualties, the greater part of those reserves had been absorbed into the front and support trenches, leaving as available reserves two exhausted battalions. This regiment had suffered casualties to the extent of over 50 percent west of Pozires during the middle of July, and showed no eagerness to return to the fight.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told