Passchendaele Sunset Ceremony 12 Oct 17

New Zealand’s Sunset Ceremony to mark the Battle of Passchendaele was conducted at the hauntingly beautiful Buttes New British Cemetery in Polygon Wood as the sun went down on 12 October, 2017.

In front of the New Zealand Memorial to the Missing, the NZDF contingent performed a musical piece entitled Passchendaele. This re-enacted the events of 12 October, 1917, from the artillery barrage to the machine guns, the dead and dying and, finally, the knock on the door back in New Zealand of the telegram boy with the terrible news to a devastated wife and daughter. It was an emotional end to a special day of commemoration.

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