WW1 Polderhoek Chateau: ‘This is where I was wounded’

On 3 December 1917, the men of the 1st Canterbury and 1st Otago battalions assembled along the front line opposite a German strongpoint that was backed with pillboxes, machine-guns, trenches; and at the heart of the position, the ruins of Polderhoek Chateau.  At midday the whistles blew and […]