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

Taken from the talk given at Oldham Historical Research Group on the 16th August, 1917

CO 2241

An attack, by German forces, at the coast on the 12th of July.
The British were defending a 'wedge-shaped' area, in the sandunes,
between the Yser canal and the German lines, with the sea on their other side

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