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'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
Taken from the talk
given at Oldham Historical Research Group on the 16th August, 1917
![Front Line at Ypres - July 31st, August 1st & 11th, 1917](../narrative-pix/M-michelin-maps-5edward.jpg)
Front Line at Ypres - July 31st, August 1st & 11th, 1917
(green ellipse shows the location of the Grenadier Guards when Edward was killed)
From: Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields - 'YPRES & the Battles of Ypres'
See Passchendaele 'Resources' page.
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