Oldham Historical Research Group

'THE GREAT WAR',     'THE WAR TO END WAR',     'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
                                                                                                  
from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

The Battle of 3rd Ypres - Passchendaele

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Photographs taken during the Battle of 3rd Ypres
and to be found on the IWM Website.

CO 2252

IWM catalogue nimber & descriptive caption:
CO 2252
Canadian stretcher bearers carrying a wounded soldier through the mud of the Ypres Salient, 1917.

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