Fort Takapuna - Passchendaele Exhibition

This afternoon we went to Fort Takapuna to see the Passchendaele exhibition. The fort was built in the late 1800s when they thought Russian warships were planning on attacking NZ.




The battle of Passchendaele in Belgium was the mostly costly for the NZ battalion in WWI with the loss of many lives. The exhibition inside the fort tells the history of the battle. They have made 5000 crosses in memory of those lost.




Many of the crosses have been written on in memory of family members.