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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... infantry tussles , 29 a heroic cavalry charge here or there , decisive victories in the field , then a fast - negotiated peace . It would all be over by Christmas . Inevitably , though , this paradise of eighteenth - century idealism ...
... infantry tussles , 29 a heroic cavalry charge here or there , decisive victories in the field , then a fast - negotiated peace . It would all be over by Christmas . Inevitably , though , this paradise of eighteenth - century idealism ...
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... infantry battles from 50 - odd metres to over 600 , meaning that troops had to cross that distance under fire to take any position . A few heavy machine- guns sufficed to sweep these spaces with leaden death ; and when the ground was ...
... infantry battles from 50 - odd metres to over 600 , meaning that troops had to cross that distance under fire to take any position . A few heavy machine- guns sufficed to sweep these spaces with leaden death ; and when the ground was ...
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... infantry rifle used by the New Zealanders . Western Front slang , usually meaning a planned military . action . Code name for the armoured ' land ships ' developed in 1915-16 , later adopted as the generic term for the type . Slang for ...
... infantry rifle used by the New Zealanders . Western Front slang , usually meaning a planned military . action . Code name for the armoured ' land ships ' developed in 1915-16 , later adopted as the generic term for the type . Slang for ...
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New Zealand and the unknown warrior 7 ང | 11 |
Trench culture | 35 |
The Somme | 65 |
Copyright | |
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