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It was on the Somme that the majority of New Zealanders were killed or wounded during the First World War, and it was here that New Zealand experienced its worst days in military history in terms of loss of life.
Just under 100 war cemeteries in Belgium and around 500 memorials in New Zealand serve as permanent reminders of the terrible toll of 1917.
This is the grave of Alfred Dickenson on Gallipoli. He was a member of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, 1 New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and he died on 30 May 1915
This list of 147 fatalities of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) was collated from Commonwealth War Graves Commission records. The exact date of death cannot be verified for 23 of those listed.
Tyne Cot Cemetery contains the graves of more New Zealanders than any other cemetery outside New Zealand.