Course organiser:Neil Fleming
Presenter:Garry Jeffrey, Life Member, U3A Okeover
26 Oct:
How did the formidable New Zealand Division, having taken all its objectives on the 4 October 1917, suffer such a costly defeat just 8 days later on 12 October 1917? Who was to blame and what happened to them? How much did readers of “The Press” know about what was going on? Why do we remember Passchendaele above all other World War 1 battles, including Gallipoli?