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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... machine - guns , were the cemetery , Wolf Farm , Wolf Copse , and Bellevue . Thick across the whole of Bellevue Spur ... gun fire , against which further ad- vance , without increased artillery preparation , was impossible . In spite of ...
... machine - guns , were the cemetery , Wolf Farm , Wolf Copse , and Bellevue . Thick across the whole of Bellevue Spur ... gun fire , against which further ad- vance , without increased artillery preparation , was impossible . In spite of ...
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... machine - gun barrage , our fellows went for- ward . Unfortunately , one battery ranged short , and caused some ... machine - guns opened up fiercely from the chateau and the pill - boxes and from the position on Gheluvelt Ridge . Men ...
... machine - gun barrage , our fellows went for- ward . Unfortunately , one battery ranged short , and caused some ... machine - guns opened up fiercely from the chateau and the pill - boxes and from the position on Gheluvelt Ridge . Men ...
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... ( Rifle ) —made rapid progress , with relatively few casualties . They took the village , then 1st Brigade took over and ... machine - gun fire prevented this challenge from becoming serious , and at 3.10 p.m. the 4th Australian Division ...
... ( Rifle ) —made rapid progress , with relatively few casualties . They took the village , then 1st Brigade took over and ... machine - gun fire prevented this challenge from becoming serious , and at 3.10 p.m. the 4th Australian Division ...
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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