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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Page 37
... 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 Godley's II Anzac Corps in the latter part of 1917. The Germans ...
... 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 Godley's II Anzac Corps in the latter part of 1917. The Germans ...
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... Bailleul was the site of a corps headquarters , and the cemetery A headstone shared by a New Zealand and an Australian soldier in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension . NELSON BRIGADTER GENERAL FRANCIS EARL JOHNSTONCR STAFFORDSHIRE RECT ...
... Bailleul was the site of a corps headquarters , and the cemetery A headstone shared by a New Zealand and an Australian soldier in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension . NELSON BRIGADTER GENERAL FRANCIS EARL JOHNSTONCR STAFFORDSHIRE RECT ...
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... Bailleul is the village of Méteren , where the New Zealand corps troops were thrown into the line to help stem the German offensive in April 1918. From Bailleul , it is about 14 kilometres on the D944 and N42 to Hazebrouck , the area ...
... Bailleul is the village of Méteren , where the New Zealand corps troops were thrown into the line to help stem the German offensive in April 1918. From Bailleul , it is about 14 kilometres on the D944 and N42 to Hazebrouck , the area ...
Contents
Visiting the battlefields | 5 |
MessinesLa Basseville | 26 |
ArmentièresLys | 35 |
Copyright | |
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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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