The small French town of Le Quesnoy is forever indebted to NZ after our soldiers' heroic feat to liberate the town on November 4, 1918.
Historian Christopher Pugsley
Left to right: Corporal F.T. Jenner, Lieutenant L.C.L. Averill, MC (first man to enter the town over the walls), Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Godley, Lieutenant F.W. Lang, Rev. M. Mullineux, Colonel G.N. Johnston, Corporal E. Thomas, and Sergeant Harry Moscroft, Credit: The Central Press Photos Ltd, Ref: PAColl-6181-19, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Major Harold Barrowclough, a 24-year-old Dunedin law student, commanding 4 Rifles. Credit: Otago Witness Illustrated, 20 June 1917, Toitu Otago Settlers Museum
George Edmond Butler͛s careful recreation of the scaling of the walls, showing Second Lt Leslie Averill on the grassed mound, with Second Lt Harry Kerr about to ascend. The three riflemen are Privates Howden, Haxton and Peters. It seems they followed Second Lt Phillip Lummis up the ladder, (not in painting). After them came Major Harold Barrowclough, his signaller and then Lt Selwyn Kenrick. George Edmond Butler, ͚Capture of the walls of Le Quesnoy͛, oil, 1532 x 1220 mm, AAAC 898, NCWA 535, Archives NZ
Christopher Pugsley's book. (Published by Oratia.)
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The small French town of Le Quesnoy is forever indebted to NZ after our soldiers' heroic feat to liberate the town on November 4, 1918.
