NEW ZEALAND ARMY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 4 June 1919, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND ARMY

ITS WAR RECORD

LIST OF ENGAGEMENTS.

Following is an official list of the catopaigns. and battles an which the New Zealanders have been engaged in the war:—

THE DIVISION. Galhpoli campaign, April 25 to December 19, 19J 5; holding lines at Arniontieres, May-August, 1916: Battle o* the Somme, September 15 to October 7. 1916; Battle of Arras, April .1917: Battles of Messines, June 7, 1917'- La Bassevlle captured.'July 31, 1917: Battle Passchendaele, October 4 and 12, 1917; German offensive. New Zealand troops engaged from March 26 1918; Battle of Lys, April 13-15, 1918 (N.Z. units at Meteren); Battle of Cham-r-agne, May, 1918; Rossignol Wood captured, July 24, 1918; continuously engaged in great British offensive Aueus* 21 to November 11, 1918; Loupart Wood, Grevilteivs, and Biefvilliers captured, August 24, 1918; Favreuil seized August 25, 1918; Bapaum e captured' August 29, 1918; Bancourt and Fremicourt taken, August 30, 1918; Haplincourt captured, September 2, 1918* -Bertmcourt captured, September 3* 191f; Royaulcourfe taken, September 4* 'io ii«W< dge won ' Sept«mber 12, 1918; Welsh Ridge and La Vacquerie captured, September 29 1918Creveooeur stormed, October 1 1918 • Lesdam and Esnes captured, Octobei- 8* 1918; Longsart taken, October 9 1918 * Bnastie won October 11, 1918; Selle crossed, October 12, 1918; passage of kscaillon river forced and Beaudienies captured, October 23, 1918; Le Quesnoy captured, November 4, 1918. THE MOUNTED BRIGADE. | Bomani, July 1916; Bir el Abd, July, 1916; Magdhaba, December, 1916Rafa, January 1917; first Gaza, Marchl ■i? 1?' n l d Gaza> AP"I, 1917; Beeri sheba, October, 1917: Ayun Kara, November 1917; capture of Jaffa, November 1917; capture of Jericho, February 1918; Ammam, March, 1918; Jordsfa Valley operations April-September, 1918; capture of Ammam, September 1918; operations in Moab, September -Lyj.o.