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Ever since 1917 Passchendaele has been a byword for the horror of the First World War. The assault on this tiny Belgian village cost the lives of thousands of New Zealand soldiers. But its impact reached far beyond the battlefield, leaving deep scars on many New Zealand communities and families.

Military events in Belgium after the Passchendaele offensive of October 1917, including the failed attack at Polderhoek

This interactive map illustrates New Zealand's involvement in the battles for Messines, Polderhoek and Passchendaele during 1917.

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.