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 10
... September 1917. The First Battle of Ypres in 1914 had left the town in the centre of a salient . With the front line roughly 10 kilometres away , it was well within artillery range . The Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 led to the Germans ...
... September 1917. The First Battle of Ypres in 1914 had left the town in the centre of a salient . With the front line roughly 10 kilometres away , it was well within artillery range . The Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 led to the Germans ...
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... September , and by the 11th the infantrymen had also taken up their positions , between High Wood and Delville Wood in the vicinity of the village of Longueval . In the attack on 15 September the New Zealanders had the task of capturing ...
... September , and by the 11th the infantrymen had also taken up their positions , between High Wood and Delville Wood in the vicinity of the village of Longueval . In the attack on 15 September the New Zealanders had the task of capturing ...
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... SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER , 1916 AND WHOSE GRAVES ARE KNOWN ONLY TO GOD . While in Longueval , take the opportunity to ... September 1916. Factory Corner , which it captured on 25 September , lay on the road between Gueudecourt and l'Abbaye ...
... SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER , 1916 AND WHOSE GRAVES ARE KNOWN ONLY TO GOD . While in Longueval , take the opportunity to ... September 1916. Factory Corner , which it captured on 25 September , lay on the road between Gueudecourt and l'Abbaye ...
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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