New Zealand Regimental Aid Post in a captured German trench, Puisieux, France, 21 August 1918.Henry Armytage Bradley Sanders, AWMM: PH-ALB-418-H922

War chronicle · Hūrae–Noema · Marne, France

Ka eke i ngā Whenua Haumi


Kei raro te Ope a Tiamani e putu ana.

Kua rite ngā Ope Haumi ki te whakahoki i te riri o Tiamani i te kōanga. Ka riro mā Wīwī te Riri Tuarua o te Marne (18 Hūrae–5 Ākuhata) e huaki, e 90,000 ngā hōia Amerikana i tō rātou taha –12,000 ka hinga. Koinei te riri nui tuatahi o ngā Amerikana. Kotahi rau e ono tekau mā waru ngā hōia Tiamana i hinga, i taotū rānei, e 50km tō ratou hoki whakamuri.

Whai muri atu, ka whakaekea te Somme e Piritana, i te Riri o Amiens (8¬–12 Ākuhata) – he wikitōria nui anō. He tuatahitanga tēnei, kua whakahaurarotia te mano tini o ngā hōia o Tiamani.

I te katinga o Hepetema, ka hoki whakamuri a Tiamani ki tō rātou pae whakamutunga – ki te Pae o Hindenburg. Heoi, ka upoko pakaru ngā Ope Haumi. I te rua wiki noa, ka whati te Pae o Hindenburg i ngā ope o Piritana, heoi, ko ngā kaiwāwāhi ko Kānata, ko Ahitereiria, ko Niu Tīreni hoki.