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Kōrero: First World War

Memorial at Le Quesnoy

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Memorial at Le Quesnoy

In 1923 a memorial to the New Zealanders was unveiled in Le Quesnoy. It was set into the ramparts close to where the soldiers scaled the walls using ladders on 4 November 1918.

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Ian McGibbon, First World War – Western Front, 1918, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34136/memorial-at-le-quesnoy (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian McGibbon, i tāngia i te 16 April 2012.