My Account Flanders Fields place of remembrance : Native Maori wood carving in honour of New Zealand soldiers lost in the battle of Passchendaele 1917 near Ieper (Ypres)
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The pou maumahara (memorial carving) was installed on 15 April in Passchendaele Memorial Park in Zonnebeke, between Ypres and Passchendaele, in Belgium. During World War I, 2227 Maori served in the Maori Pioneer Battalion, of which 336 died on active service and 734 were wounded. The battalion carried out logistical and construction tasks on the Belgian battlefields, digging trenches and building roads and light railway lines, often under heavy shelling.
“The memorial carving celebrates the memory of our ancestors and the sacrifice they made, expressed through our nation’s best carvers.”
Mayor of Zonnebeke Dirk Sioen says the installation of the pou maumahara in Zonnebeke, next to the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, is a symbol for our community of the long-lasting bond with New Zealand.
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