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 64
... Quesnoy . When a new attack began on 4 November , involving the Fourth , Third , and First Armies on a 50 - kilometre front , the New Zealand Division outflanked and then captured Le Quesnoy in dramatic fashion . While one force ...
... Quesnoy . When a new attack began on 4 November , involving the Fourth , Third , and First Armies on a 50 - kilometre front , the New Zealand Division outflanked and then captured Le Quesnoy in dramatic fashion . While one force ...
Page 66
... entered the town , establishing a bridgehead on the east bank of the Scheldt Canal . The bridge at Havrincourt under full load in 1918 . Private James Crichton VC . New Zealand troops in Le Quesnoy in 1918 . (. 66 LE QUESNOY.
... entered the town , establishing a bridgehead on the east bank of the Scheldt Canal . The bridge at Havrincourt under full load in 1918 . Private James Crichton VC . New Zealand troops in Le Quesnoy in 1918 . (. 66 LE QUESNOY.
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... Quesnoy . We were , however , making progress and the German fire - power from the walls had lessened . There were two outlying bastions ... Fortu- nately the possibility of wall - climbing had been foreseen and a ladder had been ...
... Quesnoy . We were , however , making progress and the German fire - power from the walls had lessened . There were two outlying bastions ... Fortu- nately the possibility of wall - climbing had been foreseen and a ladder had been ...
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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