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Previous | Contents | Next While most of the NZ Expeditionary Force sailed for the Western Front, the NZMR remained in Egypt as part of an Anzac Mounted Division. The Anzac Division was part of the British effort to defend Egypt and drive the Ottoman Empire out of Sinai, Palestine, and Syria. Highly mobile, and adaptable to ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next The AMR was part of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade (NZMR), which was in turn part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The AMR was considered an elite unit and at the outbreak of war, with competition among volunteers to join its ranks, its strength was twenty-six officers, ... Read more
Previous | Contents | This is the action in which Tottie’s youngest son, Marshall, died. § New Zealand History writes that in terms of lives lost in a single day, the attack on Bellevue Spur was probably the greatest disaster in New Zealand’s history. An attack on 9 October by British and Australian ... Read more