War poet Siegfried Sassoon called Passchendaele "hell". The battle is remembered as one of the most horrific conflicts of World War One, in which hundreds of thousands died in the stinking mud of ...
Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge ...
William and Kate remember WW1 battle 'I was named after a World War One battle' Passchendaele's untold army of women nurses Standing under the vast stone arch were British and Belgian royals ...
Presenter Dan Snow discusses why The Battle of Passchendaele was such a unique moment in the First World War. Passchendaele. The word itself conjures up an image of hell. A shattered landscape ...
Saturday, October 26, marked the 107th anniversary of the start of the second battle of Passchendaele, in which 120 soldiers of the “Bolton Rifles” were killed. They and the 275,000 other ...
On the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Polygon Wood we mark a turning point of WWI. Allied forces pushed back German forces in The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres.
Combat was hard and bloody. Soldiers drowned in the mud. During the infamous Battle of Passchendaele, the third major conflict at Ypres, more than 500,000 soldiers were killed. An enormous cost ...
A year later, the Regiment, now joined by Lapointe, faced another infamous battle at a small Belgium town of Passchendaele. Lapointe described the aftermath at Passchendaele. "Everywhere was an ...
When Kathleen Bidewell was born, one of the most notorious campaigns of the First World War was raging. But it would be just one of many more landmark moments witnessed during her incredible 107 years ...