WW1 "soldiers" revisit their city almost exactly 100 years after they died in battle. As the rider of the green Harley fired it up it backfired and the soldiers instinctively dropped and went for their weapons. Great acting off the cuff during a 2 hour walk through the center of our city on Saturday. The Soldiers Ghost Walk was organised by the local army barracks in memory of those who died defending Belgium.

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Young men dressed in 1917 uniforms walked our city streets yesterday. They represented the 2700 men destroyed by enemy machine guns and shells over a period of 4 hours during New Zealand's greatest disaster, our so-called blackest day on October 12, 1917, near a Belgian village called Passchendaele during World War I. There were also huge numbers of wounded who stayed the night in the mud, some drowning as rain filled the shell holes they hid in. Enemy losses were 21 only.

Why do a small group of usually old men get put in positions where they decide the fate of millions?

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The 1917 soldier observes a girl who might have been his great grand daughter, if he had lived..

One from a Ghost Soldier walk through our city on Saturday. Young men in WW1 uniforms.

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Built in 1906 this would have been the platform soldiers waited on to leave town. .
Now every year in March, the station takes centre stage in the South Island's main fashion show, with the main platform becoming reputedly the world's longest catwalk.
Continuing a series on a soldiers ghost walk

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