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

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

Q 2902

IWM catalogue nimber & descriptive caption:

Q 2902
The view from a captured German pill-box,
showing the burst of a shell of the German barrage searching British reserve trenches
as part of the Battle of Polygon Wood within the Battle of Passchendaele.
Taken near the Wieltje-Grafenstafel Road (Rat Farm...)

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The Battle of 3rd Ypres - Passchendaele

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

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