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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... army ' 34 was actually a morale - builder from the War Office . 35 The massive German assault on their northwestern neighbour was a conse- quence of plans to handle a two - front war with an army that was not strong enough to carry an ...
... army ' 34 was actually a morale - builder from the War Office . 35 The massive German assault on their northwestern neighbour was a conse- quence of plans to handle a two - front war with an army that was not strong enough to carry an ...
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... army fell back into the western corner of Flanders , and on 24 October , as the Germans pinned them remorselessly against the Channel coast , King Albert ordered the Nieuport flood - gates opened . Water rolled into the Yser valley ...
... army fell back into the western corner of Flanders , and on 24 October , as the Germans pinned them remorselessly against the Channel coast , King Albert ordered the Nieuport flood - gates opened . Water rolled into the Yser valley ...
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... Army HazebrouckO Armentièreso British Lys sector O Roulles O Dixmude Arnim O Bruges 4th Army Passchendaele OPERATION GEORGETTE O Lille Quast 2nd Army Horne 1st Army OLens BEF Haig Vimy Arras O. von Below ODoullens Byng 3rd Army Picardy ...
... Army HazebrouckO Armentièreso British Lys sector O Roulles O Dixmude Arnim O Bruges 4th Army Passchendaele OPERATION GEORGETTE O Lille Quast 2nd Army Horne 1st Army OLens BEF Haig Vimy Arras O. von Below ODoullens Byng 3rd Army Picardy ...
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New Zealand and the unknown warrior 7 ང | 11 |
Trench culture | 35 |
The Somme | 65 |
Copyright | |
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