Western Front: The New Zealand Division in the First World War, 1916-18The New Zealanders surged up the scaling ladders and over the top into the dawn mist. In November 2004, a soldier from the Western Front was chosen to symbolise all New Zealand's military heritage, underlining the way that our experience in Belgium and France between 1916 and 1918 speaks to us over the years and generations. Why did so many New Zealanders sail from the 'uttermost ends of the Earth' to die in muddy foreign soil? and were the tactics really as mindless as climbing out of a trench and walking very slowly towards the Germans until everyone was dead? |
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... Germans were in full retreat to high ground above the Aisne.42 41 Both sides then began a dash to the north in the hope of turning the other's flank , and while Joffre's men clashed with German forces along a growing line of trenches ...
... Germans were in full retreat to high ground above the Aisne.42 41 Both sides then began a dash to the north in the hope of turning the other's flank , and while Joffre's men clashed with German forces along a growing line of trenches ...
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... German Fourth Army to swerve towards Ypres and the BEE . The thin khaki line held ; a final German attack north of the Menin Road was repelled on 11 November , and the Germans pulled back to higher ground , leaving the British in posses ...
... German Fourth Army to swerve towards Ypres and the BEE . The thin khaki line held ; a final German attack north of the Menin Road was repelled on 11 November , and the Germans pulled back to higher ground , leaving the British in posses ...
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... Germans withdrew under orders as Ludendorff straightened the line after GEORGETTE . Plans were laid to raid the new German positions on the 23rd . The task went to Travis ' battalion , 2 Otago , but the attack was delayed by rain and ...
... Germans withdrew under orders as Ludendorff straightened the line after GEORGETTE . Plans were laid to raid the new German positions on the 23rd . The task went to Travis ' battalion , 2 Otago , but the attack was delayed by rain and ...
Contents
New Zealand and the unknown warrior 7 ང | 11 |
Trench culture | 35 |
The Somme | 65 |
Copyright | |
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