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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... Polderhoek 3 Messines - La Basseville 4 Armentières - Lys 5 Arras 6 Somme 7 Le Quesnoy 8 Other areas Appendix 1 : Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in which New Zealanders are interred Appendix 2 : Western Front battlefield ...
... Polderhoek 3 Messines - La Basseville 4 Armentières - Lys 5 Arras 6 Somme 7 Le Quesnoy 8 Other areas Appendix 1 : Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in which New Zealanders are interred Appendix 2 : Western Front battlefield ...
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... Polderhoek battlefield , take the N8 ( Menin Road ) from Ieper . ( Note : because of the ring road system it is not possible to exit Ieper from the Menin Gate , and you will have to enter the N8 outside the city limits from north or ...
... Polderhoek battlefield , take the N8 ( Menin Road ) from Ieper . ( Note : because of the ring road system it is not possible to exit Ieper from the Menin Gate , and you will have to enter the N8 outside the city limits from north or ...
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... Polderhoek on 3 December 1917. Sergeant H.J. Nicholas won his Victoria Cross in this action ( see p . 67 ) . The steeple of the church of Beselare is in the background . The site of Polderhoek Chateau , the long- since disappeared ...
... Polderhoek on 3 December 1917. Sergeant H.J. Nicholas won his Victoria Cross in this action ( see p . 67 ) . The steeple of the church of Beselare is in the background . The site of Polderhoek Chateau , the long- since disappeared ...
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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