Grévillers New Zealand Memorial
Grévillers, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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Grévillers (New Zealand) Memorial is situated in Grévillers British Cemetery. Grévillers is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 3 kilometres west of Bapaume.
This is one of seven memorials in France and Belgium to those New Zealand soldiers who died on the Western Front and whose graves are not known. The memorials are all in cemeteries chosen as appropriate to the fighting in which the men died. The Memorial commemorates almost 450 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who died in the defensive fighting in the area from March to August 1918, and in the Advance to Victory between 8 August and 11 November 1918.
The village of Grévillers was occupied by Commonwealth troops on 14 March 1917 and in April and May, the 3rd, 29th and 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations were posted nearby. They began Grévillers British Cemetery and continued to use it until March 1918, when Grévillers was lost to the German during their great advance. On the following 24 August, the New Zealand Division recaptured Grévillers and in September, the 34th, 49th and 56th Casualty Clearing Stations came to the village and used the cemetery again.
The cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Grévillers (New Zealand) Memorial is situated in Grévillers British Cemetery. Grévillers is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 3 kilometres west of Bapaume.
This is one of seven memorials in France and Belgium to those New Zealand soldiers who died on the Western Front and whose graves are not known. The memorials are all in cemeteries chosen as appropriate to the fighting in which the men died. The Memorial commemorates almost 450 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who died in the defensive fighting in the area from March to August 1918, and in the Advance to Victory between 8 August and 11 November 1918.
The village of Grévillers was occupied by Commonwealth troops on 14 March 1917 and in April and May, the 3rd, 29th and 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations were posted nearby. They began Grévillers British Cemetery and continued to use it until March 1918, when Grévillers was lost to the German during their great advance. On the following 24 August, the New Zealand Division recaptured Grévillers and in September, the 34th, 49th and 56th Casualty Clearing Stations came to the village and used the cemetery again.
The cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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- Added: 19 Jun 2006
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2179698
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