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For these small gains, the New Zealanders suffered dead and 2, wounded. For the first time the division had failed in a major operation. After this failure, the division continued to hold a sector of the line. The steady drain of men while units only held the line was less spectacular, though it made up half the losses of the division.

Here, before withdrawing from the front, more men were lost in the 4th Brigade alone. The division now had four brigades, making it one of the largest on the Western Front, and was stationed in the Polygon Wood area. An attack by the 2nd Brigade on 3 December gained useful ground but failed to capture Polderhoek Chateau. When the division was relieved, on 24 February , three "quiet" months had cost 3, men, more than 1, of them killed. After confused fighting, the New Zealanders eventually gained the upper hand and soon were counter-attacking advantageous land, stabilising the British line.

Later in the year, they excelled in the open country fighting that was brought about by the Allied counter-offensive. In their last action of the war, the division captured the ancient fortress Vauban -designed town of Le Quesnoy in a daring assault on 4 November The day proved to be the division's most successful of their whole time on the Western Front as they pushed east and advanced ten kilometres, capturing 2, German soldiers and 60 field guns.

The town occupied a strategic position in north-eastern France and had been held by the Germans since Although with no specific orders indicating that the town need to be captured with any haste, the New Zealand soldiers were determined to and just before midday the first New Zealand troops reached the outer walls and scaled them with ladders. Propping the ladders against the precariously narrow inner walls, sections of one New Zealand battalion ascended the walls and engaged in hand-to-hand fighting with fleeing German defenders.

The few thousand strong German garrison surrendered soon after New Zealand soldiers entered the town itself. The infantry were relieved on the eastern side of the forest at midnight on 5—6 November and the war ended five days later. The division left the Third Army on 28 November, and marched through Belgium, to entrain at the German frontier for Cologne and take up billets in neighbouring towns as part of the army of occupation.

The cost of maintaining the division for two and a half years on the Western Front was appalling. Altogether some 13, New Zealanders died of wounds or sickness as a direct result of this campaign, including 50 as prisoners of war and more than at home.

Another 35, were wounded, and prisoners of war were ultimately repatriated. The total casualties therefrom approached 50,, well over half the number of those who served in France or Belgium. From January , Philomel patrolled the Gulf of Alexandretta in the Eastern Mediterranean, supporting several landings and sustaining three fatal casualties, one being the first New Zealander killed in action in the war. New Zealand was not subject to any significant direct military threat during the war. Although Germany had plans for naval raids on Australia and New Zealand, the threat from her Asiatic Squadron did not eventuate, as that force moved across the Pacific before being destroyed at the Battle of the Falkland Islands.

She laid two small minefields in New Zealand waters and sank two merchant ships. Two fishing trawlers, the Nora Niven and Simplon , were fitted as minesweepers and took up sweeping duties in these areas. Another brief flurry of activity occurred when Felix von Luckner , imprisoned on Motuihe Island after being captured in the Society Islands , escaped and commandeered a small vessel before being recaptured in the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand also contributed a wireless troop to the Mesopotamian Campaign. The troop was much affected by disease, but once in operation was attached to the Cavalry Division in the assault on Baghdad.

The Wireless Troop was among the first batch of troops to enter the city on 11 March The Wireless Troop joined further operations in Mesopotamia and was then moved to Persia. He was killed in June , having shot down five aircraft. When the supply of volunteers for reinforcements for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force slowed, conscription was introduced, with the first ballot held in Wellington on 16 November Hospital ships Maheno [34] and Marama [36] [37] were converted in Shortages of shipping, influenza [39] and strikes [40] were among causes [41] for delays in repatriating troops after the war.

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The frustration of the delay resulted in riots at Sling Camp in March [40] and at Ismailia in July. Allied governments paid compensation for looted Egyptian shops. On the Western Front missing New Zealand soldiers are commemorated in cemeteries near where they were lost rather than at the large memorials of Menin Gate and the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Occupation of German Samoa.

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