8 Aug 2017

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A new exhibition at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand remembers the battle of Passchendaele a century after it was fought in Flanders fields.

The exhibition, The Belgians have not forgotten, illustrates the ways Belgians continue to commemorate this bloody World War I battle. 

A new exhibition commemorates the 1917 battle of Passchendaele.

The assault on the tiny Belgian village of Passchendaele cost the lives of thousands of New Zealand soldiers in 1917. Casualties from the campaign, between July and November, led to 275,000 Allied casualties.

The exhibition will be on display in the Museum’s atrium from today until August 27.

Currently touring Australian and New Zealand venues as part of commemorative activities for the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, it was created by the Memorial Museum Passchendaele, with funding and support from the Federal Government of Belgium.

The exhibition is being curated by The Waimakariri Passchendaele Trust (WPT), which was set up in 2012 to commemorate the links between Waimakariri district and the people of Zonnebeke. The village of Passchendaele is within the Zonnebeke Municipality.