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 19
... [ artillery ] fire , and progress was clearly slow . Later in the morning , the mists lifting , the Passchendaele Ridge revealed itself above the shell and bullet - swept slope . In one hollow away on the left there was an inferno of ...
... [ artillery ] fire , and progress was clearly slow . Later in the morning , the mists lifting , the Passchendaele Ridge revealed itself above the shell and bullet - swept slope . In one hollow away on the left there was an inferno of ...
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... artillery but only sufficient to allow a few men through it at a time . Even then what was left of us made an attempt to get through the wire and a few actually penetrated as far as his emplacements only to be shot down as fast as they ...
... artillery but only sufficient to allow a few men through it at a time . Even then what was left of us made an attempt to get through the wire and a few actually penetrated as far as his emplacements only to be shot down as fast as they ...
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... artillery meanwhile had been effectively disrupted by British artillery fire , and was unable to put down more than a weak barrage on no man's land about ten minutes after the troops had begun their advance behind a meticulously timed ...
... artillery meanwhile had been effectively disrupted by British artillery fire , and was unable to put down more than a weak barrage on no man's land about ten minutes after the troops had begun their advance behind a meticulously timed ...
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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