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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... Canadian Corps took the village in early November 1917 , its strategic significance had been weak- ened by the abandonment of the wider offensive plans . The Canadian feat is commemorated in a memorial . Proceeding out of Passendale to ...
... Canadian Corps took the village in early November 1917 , its strategic significance had been weak- ened by the abandonment of the wider offensive plans . The Canadian feat is commemorated in a memorial . Proceeding out of Passendale to ...
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... Canadian and Australian Corps at Amiens on 8 August - described by German com- mander Ludendorff as the ' blackest day of the war ' - they pressed for- ward across the Somme battlefield in the direction of Bapaume , which was occupied ...
... Canadian and Australian Corps at Amiens on 8 August - described by German com- mander Ludendorff as the ' blackest day of the war ' - they pressed for- ward across the Somme battlefield in the direction of Bapaume , which was occupied ...
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... Canadian forces 12 , 21 , 44-5 , 50 , 64 Canal d'Escaut 66 Canal du Nord 66 Carruthers , 2 / Lt Alan 72 casualty figures 3-4 , 10 , 12 , 15 , 21 , 26 , 28 , 35 , 47-50 cathedrals 17 , 44 , 55 , 77 , 79 , 81 Cattinières 68 Caudry 68 ...
... Canadian forces 12 , 21 , 44-5 , 50 , 64 Canal d'Escaut 66 Canal du Nord 66 Carruthers , 2 / Lt Alan 72 casualty figures 3-4 , 10 , 12 , 15 , 21 , 26 , 28 , 35 , 47-50 cathedrals 17 , 44 , 55 , 77 , 79 , 81 Cattinières 68 Caudry 68 ...
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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