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 15
... Flanders Fields Museum , located in the Cloth Hall . The Council of Europe's choice as the European Museum of the Year 2000 , it provides an overview of the conflict in the Ieper area , including a scale model of the ruins in 1918. It ...
... Flanders Fields Museum , located in the Cloth Hall . The Council of Europe's choice as the European Museum of the Year 2000 , it provides an overview of the conflict in the Ieper area , including a scale model of the ruins in 1918. It ...
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... Flanders battle- field . The fighting in 1914 had left the Germans in possession of it , and it thereafter formed the southern shoulder of the Ypres salient . It was here that the New Zealand Division , in June 1917 , had one of its ...
... Flanders battle- field . The fighting in 1914 had left the Germans in possession of it , and it thereafter formed the southern shoulder of the Ypres salient . It was here that the New Zealand Division , in June 1917 , had one of its ...
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... Flanders , on the Somme , and on the Bapaume - Le Quesnoy axis , New Zealand soldiers were to be found in many places outside these areas . Supply depots and units remained for long periods in a variety of places along the British ...
... Flanders , on the Somme , and on the Bapaume - Le Quesnoy axis , New Zealand soldiers were to be found in many places outside these areas . Supply depots and units remained for long periods in a variety of places along the British ...
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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