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Battle of the Somme
A truly nightmarish world greeted the New Zealand Division when it joined the Battle of the Somme in mid-September 1916. Fifteen thousand men of the Division went into action. Nearly 6000 were wounded and 2000 lost their lives. More than half the New Zealand Somme dead have no known grave.
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Page 3 – New Zealand's Somme experience
It was on the Somme that the majority of New Zealanders were killed or wounded during the First World War, and it was here that New Zealand experienced its worst days in
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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.
