The New Zealand Division, 1916-1919: A Popular History Based on Official Records |
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... German Corps sector till the line was broken in our Messines offensive , and is an example of the German practice of including an obstacle like the Lys within a sector of command rather than , as was the British wont , making a boundary ...
... German Corps sector till the line was broken in our Messines offensive , and is an example of the German practice of including an obstacle like the Lys within a sector of command rather than , as was the British wont , making a boundary ...
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... German stick bomb marked as follows : - On body On handle L Vor Gebrauch Spreng Kapsol einsetzent Carl Spaeter ( burnt on ) 35 ( in ink pencil ) 5 Sek . ( burnt on ) 10/3/16 ( stamped on ) 1 M. ( 88 ) ENEMY RUSES A periscope was seen to ...
... German stick bomb marked as follows : - On body On handle L Vor Gebrauch Spreng Kapsol einsetzent Carl Spaeter ( burnt on ) 35 ( in ink pencil ) 5 Sek . ( burnt on ) 10/3/16 ( stamped on ) 1 M. ( 88 ) ENEMY RUSES A periscope was seen to ...
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... German positions with at least occasionally happy results , as on the night 13th / 14th August , when it was established that the enemy had manned his parapet in strength and suffered heavy casualties from the gas and the artillery ...
... German positions with at least occasionally happy results , as on the night 13th / 14th August , when it was established that the enemy had manned his parapet in strength and suffered heavy casualties from the gas and the artillery ...
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... German re - entrant and thence diagonally over No Man's Land towards the Lys . On an aeroplane photograph this new work looked exactly like a harbour breakwater , the main trench and the saps connecting them appearing like the wharf ...
... German re - entrant and thence diagonally over No Man's Land towards the Lys . On an aeroplane photograph this new work looked exactly like a harbour breakwater , the main trench and the saps connecting them appearing like the wharf ...
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... German sentries had observed them , and strong German patrols crept out on either side to cut them off . The crawling forms of the enemy were noticed just in time , and the raiders having no chance against their very superior numbers ...
... German sentries had observed them , and strong German patrols crept out on either side to cut them off . The crawling forms of the enemy were noticed just in time , and the raiders having no chance against their very superior numbers ...
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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 communication trenches 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 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 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