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Actor Robyn Malcolm visits the towns of Passchendaele and Ypres in Belgium - both near the cemetery where her great uncle, Private George Salmond, is buried. Salmond, an ANZAC signaler, was among the 18,500  New Zealand casualties of World War I. He was killed in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, a victim of a battle recognised as a tragedy of poor planning and preparation. Local war experts pay tribute to the New Zealand soldiers' mettle, and Malcolm looks at the site and reflects on Uncle George and his sacrifice on foreign whenua. 

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 Jane Andrews
 Mike O'Connor
 Bevan Crothers

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 R L of Auckland

R L of Auckland

A very moving and sad documentary about our brave soldiers and the misuse of them by the Allied high Command of World War I.

Well to all involved.

'Lest we forget'

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