British Cemetery (N.Z.) Memorial. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 15 May 2011. Cemetery details: Messines Ridge (N.Z.) Memorial. Commonwealth...

October they were involved in heavy fighting on the Messines Ridge in Belgium. It was at Messines on 31 October 1914 that Khudadad Khan performed the...

participated in the Battle of Messines. His battalion, covered by artillery fire, was attacking the edge of the village of Messines, now known as Mesen, when...

during the First World War, including the Battles of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Messines, Ypres, the German Spring Offensive and the final victorious Hundred...

artillery here had fewer advantages than at Messines: the Ypres Salient was cramped and overlooked from Pilckem Ridge in front, and the massed batteries suffered...

Ireland Island of Ireland Peace Park, Messines, Belgium National War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada National War Memorial, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada...

Retrieved 24 December 2023. Memorial plaque in cemetery in Majorca where Jean Batten is buried NZ Memorial in Korea New Zealand Expeditionary Force...

Brigade, New Zealand Division, and in mid-1917 took part in the Battle of Messines. A few months later, the battalion was operating in the Ypres Salient and...

further distinguished itself in the storming of Messines Ridge and the capture of the village of Messines. On 7 June, after the detonation of nearly 500...

Camp is the largest New Zealand Army base and is home to the Headquarters 1(NZ) Brigade. It is located just south of Palmerston North. Manawatu Prison is...

After mid-1916 battles included the Battle of Le Transloy, the Battle of Messines, and the Battle of Cambrai. The composition of the division was as follows:...

Trench warfare: Britannica.com article YouTube video of Hill 60 on the Messines Ridge, site of a huge underground explosion William Philpott: Warfare 1914–1918...

France and Belgium. During this time it fought major battles at Messines, Broodseinde Ridge, Passchendaele, Amiens, and the St Quentin Canal. After the war...

near Messines The objective was to eliminate a salient that had developed in the line south of Ypres, enclosing the Wytschaete–Messines ridge and thus...

Dundurn. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-4597-2417-4. "VC background". British War Graves Memorial. Archived from the original on 6 October 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-07. "Willie...

Ferguson, David. "The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914 - 1919". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2019-01-23. "'Needless to say, we hung on…':...

I. It saw active service on the Western Front at the Somme, Arras, and Messines, on the Flanders coast, against the German spring offensive, and in the...

Company, 14th Battalion, and in June led his men through the Battle for Messines Ridge. During their advance, the company overran several machine gun posts...

formations as required. CLV went on to serve at the battles of Arras and Messines, the Third Ypres Offensive, the German spring offensive and the final Hundred...

part in two demonstration bombardments in cooperation with the Battle of Messines. From their OPs on the higher ground the Germans could see the preparations...

Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914. History of the Great War Based on Official...

of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium 1917, Vol II, Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele), London: HM Stationery Office, 1948/Uckfield:...

gazetted in the 1917 Birthday Honours list. His battalion fought at Messines Ridge in June 1917. On 1 July 1917, Eden was confirmed as a temporary lieutenant...

with Canadian awards, as Newfoundland became part of Canada in 1949. "Memorial to fallen Newfoundland soldiers declared National Historic Site". Government...

pounds (454,545 kg) of explosives that had been placed underneath the Messines ridge, destroying the German trenches. The advance was virtually unopposed...

days, with Z day put back to 1 July. The 16th Middlesex was in support, behind the 2nd Royal Fusiliers attacking towards the Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt and...

the Somme were surpassed by those fired at the start of the Battle of Messines the following year. French and German military operations began on the...

(31 battalions): Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915, '17, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde...

were not yet appreciated. A failed attack by Smith-Dorrien's II Corps on Messines–Wytschaete (14–15 December) was blamed on poor GHQ staff work, and on 18...

birth and death) Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Major-General Henry Richard Abadie (1841—1915), General Officer...