Battle of Pozières Ridge 1916: 6,800 “murdered…through the incompetence, callousness, and personal vanity of those high in authority”

This is quoted from Australian Lieutenant John Alexander Raws’ letter home from the Western Front at Pozières Ridge with the 23rd Battalion in August 1916 just before his 33rd birthday.  Battle of Pozières Ridge lasting six weeks from July 23 through to…