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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... Australian Division of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) , they were deployed to the Gallipoli peninsula . In the subsequent fighting against the Turks , more than 2000 of them lost their lives . The campaign 2 ...
... Australian Division of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) , they were deployed to the Gallipoli peninsula . In the subsequent fighting against the Turks , more than 2000 of them lost their lives . The campaign 2 ...
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... Division , in June 1917 , had one of its spectacular successes , and the village of Mesen ( Messines ) remains ... Australian Division and the British 25th Division . The boundaries of their advance encompassed the village of Messines ...
... Division , in June 1917 , had one of its spectacular successes , and the village of Mesen ( Messines ) remains ... Australian Division and the British 25th Division . The boundaries of their advance encompassed the village of Messines ...
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... Australian Division . Until March 1918 New Zealand units attached to II Anzac Corps ( later XXII Corps ) —the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion , the Otago Mounted Rifles and the entrenching battalions - for the most part operated in the ...
... Australian Division . Until March 1918 New Zealand units attached to II Anzac Corps ( later XXII Corps ) —the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion , the Otago Mounted Rifles and the entrenching battalions - for the most part operated in the ...
Contents
Visiting the battlefields | 5 |
MessinesLa Basseville | 26 |
ArmentièresLys | 35 |
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Common terms and phrases
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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Writing the Australian Child: Texts and Contexts in Fictions for Children Clare Bradford No preview available - 1996 |