New Zealand Battlefields and Memorials of the Western FrontThis is a guide book that provides directions for those who wish to visit the graves of their forbears or to examine the places in which so much New Zealand blood was shed, often in horrifying conditions. Brief descriptions of the various battles in which the New Zealanders took part are provided to give the visitor a perspective on the numerous New Zealand battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries. |
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Ian C. McGibbon. 4 Armentières - Lys he Armentières area was the site of the New Zealand Division's initial operations on the Western Front . At the time the New Zealanders concentrated in the area around Hazebrouck in April 1916 , the ...
Ian C. McGibbon. 4 Armentières - Lys he Armentières area was the site of the New Zealand Division's initial operations on the Western Front . At the time the New Zealanders concentrated in the area around Hazebrouck in April 1916 , the ...
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... Armentières sector , operating in familiar positions at Houplines , until December 1916. The New Zealanders at Sailly held a line of about five kilo- metres facing Fromelles and the Aubers ridge . One of the brigade head- quarters was ...
... Armentières sector , operating in familiar positions at Houplines , until December 1916. The New Zealanders at Sailly held a line of about five kilo- metres facing Fromelles and the Aubers ridge . One of the brigade head- quarters was ...
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... Armentières by the D22 . From Armentières , proceed on the D933 to Bailleul , about 12 kilo- metres to the north - west . An important staging point for New Zealand troops serving at Armentières , this town was also the site of General ...
... Armentières by the D22 . From Armentières , proceed on the D933 to Bailleul , about 12 kilo- metres to the north - west . An important staging point for New Zealand troops serving at Armentières , this town was also the site of General ...
Contents
Visiting the battlefields | 5 |
MessinesLa Basseville | 26 |
ArmentièresLys | 35 |
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12 October Alexander Turnbull Library Amiens Anzac Corps April Archives New Zealand Armentières Arras artillery Bailleul Bapaume barrage Basseville Battalion Battle Beaudignies Belgium Brigade British Cemetery captured casualties Cathedral Cemetery Ploegsteert Cemetery St Jan commemorated Communal Cemetery Extension CWGC Cyclist Étaples Farm Cemetery fighting Flers forces France front line German offensive Grévillers Havrincourt headstones Hébuterne Ieper II Anzac Corps July Kemmel kilometres Le Quesnoy Longueval machine-gun Marfaux Menin Gate Menin Road Mesen metres Military Cemetery Missing museum November NZEF Otago Passchendaele Passendale Péronne plaque Ploegsteert Wood Polygon Wood Poperinge proceed Quesnoy recorded the names Rifle Road Cemetery Roeselaarestraat Romeries s-Graventafel sector September Sergeant shell Solesmes Somme three kilometres town trenches tunnellers turn left turn right Tyne-Cot unveiled Vertigneul Victoria Cross village wall Website Western Front World Ypres Zealand battlefield memorial Zealand Division Zealand graves Zealand Memorial Zealand soldiers Zealand troops Zealanders advanced Zillebeke
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