In Flanders
The Battle of Passchendaele is a much discussed and widely documented episode of the First World War, and the feats of arms of the Commonwealth troops in particular have caused rivers of ink to flow. Although anyone who has ever read about the Great War will have the role of New Zealand in the Battle of Broodseinde and the First Battle of Passchendaele almost at their fingertips, the role of France, which lost almost as many men at Passchendaele as New Zealand, is all too often overlooked. In this expo we take a close look at the French démarche.
Names in the Landscape
The Menin Gate commemorates more than 54,000 soldiers who died in Flanders. They have no known grave, were not recovered or could not be positively identified. The Passchendaele Museum wants to give as many as possible of the 6,928 Canadians on the Menin Gate a tangible place in the landscape.
