Ambitious World War I display at Army Museum
A World War One gallery is to be opened at the Queen Elizabeth II Army Museum next Monday at 11.00am. The opening time is the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1 9 1 8 when armistice took place. The display is the most ambitious yet for the museum, and depicts three major campaigns fought between 1915 and 1918 — Gallipoli, Sinai- Palestine and the Western Front, and includes a life-size trench complete with battlefield debris and rats. The gallery will be opened, by New Zealand's only surviving First World War Victoria Cross winner, Harry Laurent of Napier. It is perhaps instructive to recall that of 100,444 New Zealanders on active service between 1914 and 1918,. 16,697 died and 41,317 were wounded — a 58 per cent casualty rate.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 24, 5 November 1985, Page 9
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140Ambitious World War I display at Army Museum Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 24, 5 November 1985, Page 9
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