Posts Tagged ‘Passchendaele’

Passchendaele “New Zealand’s darkest day” in WWI remembered on distant shores

Thursday, October 12th, 2017
Passchendaele.

A New Zealand Memorial and Garden has been opened at Zonnebeke, Belgium, in time for the 100th anniversary of the battle of Passchendaele. It is one ‘petal’ of a larger memorial for all those who died there – including German soldiers. It’s also a departure from the style of tributes in the 1920s to the ‘glorious dead’, Read more