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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... Zealand troops were reinforced and reor- ganised into a separate New Zealand Division . Leaving a mounted rifles brigade to take part in the continuing campaign against the Turks in Sinai - Palestine , they embarked for France in April ...
... Zealand troops were reinforced and reor- ganised into a separate New Zealand Division . Leaving a mounted rifles brigade to take part in the continuing campaign against the Turks in Sinai - Palestine , they embarked for France in April ...
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... New Zealand troops were further engaged in this area . These were corps troops - gunners , mounted riflemen , cyclists and entrenching troops . On 16 April , at Méteren , near Bailleul , 210 men of the 2nd Entrenching Battalion were ...
... New Zealand troops were further engaged in this area . These were corps troops - gunners , mounted riflemen , cyclists and entrenching troops . On 16 April , at Méteren , near Bailleul , 210 men of the 2nd Entrenching Battalion were ...
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... soldier who suffered from anti - German feeling in New Zealand and. New Zealand troops march through Bailleul in 1917 . ( Alexander Turnbull Library , G1339 % ) The New Zealand Memorial to The New Zealand Memorial ,. 37 ARMENTIÈRES - LYS.
... soldier who suffered from anti - German feeling in New Zealand and. New Zealand troops march through Bailleul in 1917 . ( Alexander Turnbull Library , G1339 % ) The New Zealand Memorial to The New Zealand Memorial ,. 37 ARMENTIÈRES - LYS.
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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