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The unknown battle: More than 1000 Kiwi soldiers killed at La Basse-Ville

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As we count down to Anzac Day — a time to  commemorate those who died in war and honour the many returned servicemen and women — East Coast man Marcus Williams recounts meeting a Belgian historian who wrote a book on the 1917 Battle of La Basse-Ville and later discovered her grandmother had met his grandfather, Toby Nolan, during World War 1.

In 2017 our family was contacted by a lady fr...


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