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

Pioneer Battalion laying a duckboard track up to the Forward Trenches and making ditches to divert floods.

Pioneer Battalion laying a duckboard track up to the Forward Trenches and making ditches to divert floods.
From : 'The War Illustrated - The story of the Great European War told by camera, pen and pencil.
Vol. 9 - 'The Fourth Year 1917-1918'
See Passchendaele 'Resources' page.

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