CWCG monument in honour of the New Zealand servicemen killed in the 1917 battle of Messines
(Browse the collection : West Flanders Province time lapse and video stock footage)
Go and see the battlefields if you’re planning a trip to Europe. We’ve all seen the poignant World War I memorials that are a feature of most New Zealand towns, but the sites where these events took place are even more moving.
The New Zealand Division rushed Messines and won one of the first big allied victories of the Great War. Today, the landscape still tells the tale of this impressive battle with mine craters, memorials and cemeteries.
In and around Messines, New Zealand’s efforts in the Great War are marked by the New Zealand Memorial (unveiled in 1924), the New Zealand Memorial to the Missing and several Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries. In the late 1960s local historians started to take an interest in the New Zealanders’ names on the monuments and tombstones.
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