Reading- Somme and Passchendaele

Keywords:

1. Ghastly
2. Battle’s end
3. Two thousand
4. Killed
5. 1917
6. June
7. Months
8. Freezing cold
9. Barbed wire
10.  Moonscape

Summary

The Somme was a ghastly place for war. New Zealand soldiers didn’t really get involved until the battle’s end but during that time two thousand men were killed. Worse came a year later in June 1917 there were a series of battles that went on for months in Passchendaele; it was freezing cold there and some men were forced through barbed wire on gunshot. Some people said the surrounding countryside looked like a moonscape.