The New Zealand Division, 1916-1919: A Popular History Based on Official Records |
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1st Auckland 1st Brigade 1st Canterbury 1st Otago 1st Wellington 25th Division 2nd Auckland 2nd Brigade 2nd Canterbury 2nd Otago 2nd Rifles 2nd Wellington 37th Division 42nd Division 4th Rifles 5th Australian Division advance aeroplanes Anzac Anzac Corps Armentières Army artillery Artillery Brigade assault attack Australian Division Bapaume barrage battalions batteries battle bombardment bombs British Capt captured casualties command Corps counter-attack defence Douve dugouts enemy enemy's Farm fighting Flers forward front line further garrison German Gird Goose Alley Gueudecourt gunners Headquarters heavy Hébuterne Houplines howitzers Infantry Brigade killed Le Quesnoy Lewis gun light trench mortars Lt.-Col machine gun fire Man's Land Messines moved night objective officers operations parapet party patrols pillboxes platoon position posts prisoners Quesnoy raid raiders railway rear relieved reserve ridge Rifle Brigade right flank sector Sergt shellholes shelling slopes Somme troops valley village Warneton wire Wood wounded yards Ypres Zealand Division
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Page xii - No division in France built up for itself a finer reputation, whether for the gallantry of its conduct in battle, or for the excellence of its behaviour out of the line.
Page 171 - From that date onwards, as the necessary labour became available, deep mining for offensive purposes gradually developed, in spite of great difficulties, from water-bearing strata and active countermining by the enemy. In all, twenty-four mines were constructed, four of which were outside the front ultimately selected for our offensive, while one other was lost as the result of a mine blown by the enemy. Many of these mines had been completed for twelve months prior to our offensive, and constant...
Page 598 - November our troops had broken the enemy's resistance beyond possibility of recovery and forced on him a disorderly retreat along the whole front of the British Armies. Thereafter the enemy was capable neither of accepting nor refusing battle. The utter confusion of his troops, the state of his railways congested with abandoned trains, the capture of huge quantities of rolling stock and material all showed that our attack had been decisive.
Page 61 - The object of that offensive was threefold : (i) To relieve the pressure on Verdun. (ii) To assist our Allies in the other theatres of war by stopping any further transfer of German troops from the Western front. (iii) To wear down the strength of the forces opposed to us.
Page 88 - The result of the fighting of the 15th September and following days was a gain more considerable than any which had attended our arms in the course of a single operation since the commencement of the offensive. In the course of one day's fighting we had broken through two of the enemy's main defensive systems and had advanced on a front of over six miles to an average depth of a mile. In the course of this advance we had taken three large villages, each powerfully organised for prolonged resistance.
Page 598 - ... railways, congested with abandoned trains, the capture of huge Quantities of rolling stock and material, all showed that our attack had been decisive. It had been followed on the north by the evacuation of the Tournai salient, and to the south, where the French forces had pushed forward in conjunction with us, by a rapid and costly withdrawal to the line of the Meuse.
Page 563 - By this time the rapid succession of heavy blows dealt by the British forces had had a cumulative effect, both moral and material, upon the German Armies.
Page 119 - The New Zealand Division has fought with the greatest gallantry in the Somme battle for 23 consecutive days, carrying out with complete success every task set and always doing more than was asked of it. The Division has won universal confidence and admiration. No praise can be too high for such troops.
Page 171 - Messines offensive until the prior demands of the Arras operations had been satisfied. Nevertheless, our preparations in the northern area had been proceeded with steadily, so far as the means at our disposal would allow, ever since the formation of definite plans in the late autumn of 1916. A large railway programme had been commenced, and as soon as it was possible to divert larger supplies northwards, work was pushed on with remarkable speed. Great progress was made with road construction, and...
Page 459 - September marks the close of the second stage in the British offensive. Having in the first stage freed Amiens by our brilliant success east of that town, in the second stage the troops of the Third and Fourth Armies, comprising 23 British divisions, by skilful leading, hard fighting and relentless and unremitting pursuit, in ten days had driven 35 German divisions from one side of the old Somme battlefield to the other, thereby turning the line of the River Somme. In so doing they had inflicted...