
'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

Ground Plan of Ypres in 1917
From: 'Ypres, The Holy Ground of British Arms', by Lieut-Col. Beckles Willson
See Passchendaele 'Resources' page.
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