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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... village in early November 1917 , its strategic significance had been weak- ened by the abandonment of the wider ... village of Poelkapelle . Just over a kilometre through the village is Poelkapelle British Cemetery , which stands right ...
... village in early November 1917 , its strategic significance had been weak- ened by the abandonment of the wider ... village of Poelkapelle . Just over a kilometre through the village is Poelkapelle British Cemetery , which stands right ...
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... village of Longueval . In the attack on 15 September the New Zealanders had the task of capturing a trench system to the left of the village of Flers , about 3000 metres in front of their lines . After the lines opposite had been given ...
... village of Longueval . In the attack on 15 September the New Zealanders had the task of capturing a trench system to the left of the village of Flers , about 3000 metres in front of their lines . After the lines opposite had been given ...
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... village of la Boisselle , take the D20 to the right . While at la Boisselle take the opportunity to visit Lochnagar Crater , which gives an impression of the scale of the mines blown up under the German front line at the beginning of ...
... village of la Boisselle , take the D20 to the right . While at la Boisselle take the opportunity to visit Lochnagar Crater , which gives an impression of the scale of the mines blown up under the German front line at the beginning of ...
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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