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Along with other surviving veterans of the Western Front, Curly Blyth was made a chevalier de la Légion d'honneur by France in 1998, and a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit three years later 'for services to war veterans and the community'.

New Zealand gunners fire 4.5-inch howitzers in an orchard near Le Quesnoy, 29 October 1918

New Zealand soldiers stand at the positions from where they began their successful attack on Le Quesnoy

A New Zealand 18-pounder gun in action near Le Quesnoy on 29 October 1918

New Zealand military transport moves along a road near Le Quesnoy, 30 October 1918

Officers of the New Zealand Division entering Le Quesnoy in the early morning of 5 November 1918

New Zealand troops, on parade in Le Quesnoy's square, November 1918

Lord Milner speaks at the unveiling of the New Zealand Memorial in Le Quesnoy, 15 July 1923

Capture of the walls of Le Quesnoy by George Edmund Butler, painted in 1920.

A bronze statue of Henry Nicholas was unveiled in the Christchurch Park of Remembrance in March 2007.

Following his death, Henry Nicholas was buried in the French cemetery at Beaudignies. However, as the battalion wished to show greater respect, his body was exhumed and reinterred, with full military honours, in the Vertigneul churchyard in northern France.

Henry Nicholas earned a Victoria Cross when he single-handedly rushed the enemy, shot the officer and charged the remaining Germans with his bayonet.

The dedication of the New Zealand memorial at Le Quesnoy, 15 July 1923

During the dedication of the New Zealand Memorial at Le Quesnoy in 1923

Leslie Averill (far left) attends the ceremony, in 1977, to mark the naming of a new school and street after him. Gordon Parkinson of the New Zealand Embassy in Paris is fourth from the left.

A detail of the war memorial window in St Andrew's Church, Cambridge, New Zealand. The image shows New Zealand soldiers scaling the walls at Le Quesnoy. The caption reads 'Le Quesnoy 4 Nov 1918'.

The procession to the New Zealand Memorial during the Le Quesnoy commemoration, which was attended by both the All Blacks and the New Zealand A team on 5 November 2000.