New Zealand Memorial - Zonnebeke - Belgium
N 50° 51.334 E 002° 59.483
31U E 499393 N 5633762
The New Zealand Memorial to the Missing, designed by the English architect Charles Holden. Located in Buttes New British Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMY95H
Location: West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Date Posted: 05/13/2018
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The New Zealand Memorial to the Missing, designed by the English architect Charles Holden, lists 378 officers and men of the New Zealand Division with no known grave who were killed between September 1917 and May 1918 while serving in the Polygon Wood Sector or in the Battle of Polygon Wood.[3] Most of those commemorated were from the Otago Regiment.[4]
It is one of seven such memorials on the Western Front to the missing dead from New Zealand. There are three in Belgium: Buttes plus Messines Ridge British Cemetery and Tyne Cot and four in France: Caterpillar Valley Cemetery (in Longueval), Grévillers, Cité Bonjean (near Armentieres) and Marfaux.[3]
Other memorials and cemeteries in the area, related to the Battle of Polygon Wood, are a memorial to the Australian 5th Division and the Polygon Wood Cemetery
Private or Public Monument?: Other
Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe
Website for this Monument: [Web Link]
Physical Address of Monument:
Lange Dreve
Zonnebeke, Belgium
8980
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Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: Not listed
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