GRAVENSTAFEL
Pir-dSurely the note in your issue of September 27 on the assault of October 4, 1917, which incidentally is known in this country (at any rate, to
the survivors) as Gravenstafel (not Breodseinde), is in error in calling it a climax, As things went in those days it was regarded as a comparative walkover. By a fluke the New Zealand Division beat a German attack to the punch, taking prisoners nearly totalling their own casualties, from four divisions. If the term climax can be used from the point of view of the Division it is surely the assault on October 12, known to us as "Passchendaele"--"the Division’s one failure on a large scale." Gravenstafel was merely a curtain-raiser to this, I do not think these events should be forgotten, nor should they be misinterpreted. This leiter is essentially a protest against the use of the term "climax" for any of ae engagements in the Salient in 1917, = 26075 (Havelock North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 11
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161GRAVENSTAFEL New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 11
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