Great War Stories: Leonard Hart
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Digital items relating the Great War Story video about Leonard Hart: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/video/leonard-hart-great-war-story Passchendaele represents the blackest day in New Zealand’s history. Far more New Zealanders died in a few hours on the morning of 12 October 1917 than any other day in the country’s known history. Leonard Hart was one of the New Zealand soldiers engaged in the battle that day. His letter to his parents which was smuggled out to avoid military censorship is the most vivid extant record of the horrors of the battle. See more Great War Stories here http://firstworldwar.govt.nz/great-war-stories
Leonard Hart at Trentham Camp, 1915
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
No 51 pill box at Zonnebeke, Belgium
Alexander Turnbull Library
View of the battlefield at Passchendaele, Belgium
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Gater Point, on the battlefield near Zonnebeke, Ypres Sector, Belgium, during World War I
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Scene at Passchendaele
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Shell burst at No 6 Track, Passchendaele
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Shell burst at Passchendaele Ridge
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Gun crew in mud at Passchendaele
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Hellfire Corner, Passchendaele, Belgium
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THE ROLL OF HONOUR (Otago Daily Times 5-3-1918)
National Library of New Zealand
NEW ZEALANDERS HELD UP (Evening Post, 16 October 1917)
National Library of New Zealand
FIFTH FIGHT FOR PASSCHENDAELE RIDGE. (Wanganui Chronicle, 15 October 1917)
National Library of New Zealand
A captured German pill-box on the Passchendaele battlefield
Alexander Turnbull Library
Photographs relating to books written by Nicholas Boyack
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