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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 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.

Gunner C. W. Smith of the Third Contingent died in January 1901, aged 22 years. He was buried at a cemetery in Mafeking, and his grave was photographed by John McGrath of the Rough Riders.

The grave of Alfred Dickenson on Gallipoli. A trooper in the Wellington Mounted Rifles, he was killed in action on 30 May 1915

The grave of 40 year-old Major John Plimmer at Suda Bay War Cemetery in Crete.