They Called it Passchendaele
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* This is borne out by the fact that every year the Belgian military authorities are called on to deal with munitions of all sorts which are still being unearthed from the land after sixty years. The average annual amount is 500 tons.
* A foul-smelling but reasonbly effective substitute for the more sophisticated ‘tommy cooker’. The method was to cover the bottom of an empty ‘McConachie’ tin with scraps of sandbag canvas, covered with shavings of candle-grease, and ignite.
* A foul-smelling but reasonbly effective substitute for the more sophisticated ‘tommy cooker’. The method was to cover the bottom of an empty ‘McConachie’ tin with scraps of sandbag canvas, covered with shavings of candle-grease, and ignite.
* In The Rifle Brigade, bayonets are traditionally referred to as ‘swords’.
* The Fifth Army, General Sir Hubert Gough GC, MG, KCB, KCVO (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1931)
* The communique issued that evening read in part: Owe Anzac Corps obtained all its objectives and took 3,900 prisoners. The other Anzac Corps took all its objectives and met the Prussian Guards whom they had met at Pozieres on the Somme. This Corps took no prisoners.
* Jock and Harold Stewart are commemorated on Panel 6 of the New Zealand Memorial to the Missing, directly behind the Cross of Sacrifice in Tyne Cot Cemetery.
* Joe Hammersley got safely back to the dressing-station and eventually back to New Zealand, where he lived to a ripe old age
* From the Battalion history, ‘6,000 Men’.
* The two pillboxes referred to have been preserved and can still be seen in Tyne Cot Cemetery. Ivy grows over them and the entrances have been sealed up. The one which was the stretcher-bearers’ HQ is on the left of the entrance and central pathway. The pillbox on the right was the doctor’s aid post.
* Vic had been wounded but was evacuated and recovered.
* The picture is reproduced in this book.