25 Apr 2023

Le Quesnoy to house NZ memorial museum

From Anzac Day, 8:25 am on 25 April 2023

After the 1915 Gallipoli campaign many of New Zealand's soldiers spent the next three years fighting in the trenches of northern France and Belgium and the French town of Le Quesnoy has a special significance. In 1918 our troops liberated the town from four years of German occupation and it will soon house New Zealand's first memorial museum for Kiwi soldiers who died in Europe during World War One. An Anzac commemoration ceremony was held at Le Quesnoy on Sunday and Jude Dobson was there to film it.

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