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1916: Armentières and the Battle of the Somme
Following the Gallipoli withdrawal, the newly formed New Zealand Division left for France in early April 1916. Sent to the Flanders region to gain front-line experience, they spent the next three months guarding a ‘quiet’ or ‘nursery’ sector of the line at Armentières before moving south to the Somme battlefields and their first large-scale action on the Western Front.
- Page 1 - The Battle of the SommeFollowing the Gallipoli withdrawal, the newly formed New Zealand Division left for France in early April 1916. Sent to the Flanders region to gain front-line experience, they
Bells of remembrance
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Page 2 – The story behind the Carillon
In 1927 the Wellington War Memorial Carillon Society placed an order to cast 49 bells for their proposed First World War memorial
A sense of place
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Main image: Carillon bell memorial
In the late 1920s, Wellington public servants helped pay for ‘Messines’, a bell in the carillon of the National War Memorial.
