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Belgian battle scene

Belgian battle scene

Credit: New Zealand History online

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2 October 2007, 8:28PM

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George Edmund Butler's painting Zonnebeke (completed about 1918) captures the devastated Belgian landscape in the aftermath of the great battles of 1917. Zonnebeke is just to the south-west of Passchendaele, where the New Zealanders fought in October 1917, and just north of Polderhoek, where they saw action two months later.