Oct. 12 marks a century since the deadly encounter in Belgium On Thursday, Prince William will be one of many commemorating the centennial of a particularly gruesome attempt to seize Passchendaele ...
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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Canberra: In a hellish landscape of shattered trees, mud, shell explosions and machine-gun fire, soldiers died by the score; blown to ...
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"The more I think of our assault the more wonderful it appears, we were given almost the impossible to do and did it." These lines, written by Lt. Col. Agar Adamson to his wife Mabel on Nov. 8, 1917, ...
The remarkable bravery of the nurses who tended to wounded soldiers as bombs rained down on them during the Battle of Passchendaele has been highlighted in a new book. Nurses of Passchendaele uses the ...
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Passchendaele 1917: Where Canadian soldiers fought and drowned in mud
During the Battle of Passchendaele in late 1917, Canadian troops were sent into a flooded wasteland of mud, shell holes, and relentless artillery fire, advancing yard by yard under impossible ...
Awful conditions led to some soldiers drowing in the mud-swamped trenches (Picture: Fotosearch/Getty Images) This week people across the UK have been remembering the horrors Passchendaele – one of the ...
TIME passes but World War One seems to come closer year by year. Whatever our sense of horror at the death toll, admiration of the courage of the million who endured battle in hellish conditions grows ...
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