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Passchendaele
Intense fighting around Passchendaele in the third major Battle of Ypres, in 1917, led to the whole offensive often being referred to as Passchendaele, with its infamous association with mud and blood.
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Royal Field Artillery gunners hauling an 18 pounder field gun out of the mud near Zillebeke, 9 August 1917. © IWM (Q 6236)Image ID4755 -
British soldiers rest on a dump of shell-cases. Battle of Polygon Wood. 30th September 1917. © IWM (Q 2915)British soldiers rest on a dump of shell-cases, beside the Ypres-Menin road, 30th September 1917, during the Battle of Polygon Wood, part of the Battle of Passchendaele. In the background is passing a horse-drawn gun limber of the Royal Field Artillery.Image ID4754 -
The Harvest of Battle. Nevinson, CRW. 1919. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 1921)The Harvest of Battle. Nevinson, CRW. 1919. This work was commissioned by the Ministry of Information for the Hall of Remembrance alongside Sargent's, 'Gassed'. Nevinson describes how he produced the sketches for this work during a trip to Passchendaele with a fellow officerImage ID4753
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Troops wearing gas-masks. Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 27 September 1917. © IWM (E(AUS) 825)Image ID4752 -
Assault on Passchendaele 12 October - 6 November: A derelict tank stuck in the mud. © IWM (CO 2241)Image ID4751 -
Battle of Pilckem Ridge.31 July 1917. © IWM (Q 5721)Scene on captured ground near Hooge. British troops digging trenches, a fatigue party wearing Yukon packs going up and wounded being brought down.Image ID4750 -
Cemetery Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the worldImage ID4749 -
The Battle of Ypres, successive states of Allied advance, July 30 - November 26 1917. Courtesy of 1914-1918.netImage ID4748 -
Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Dulce et decorum est'. Courtesy of Modernism Lab at Yale University.Image ID4747
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Royal Field Artillery gunners hauling an 18 pounder field gun out of the mud near Zillebeke, 9 August 1917. © IWM (Q 6236)
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British soldiers rest on a dump of shell-cases. Battle of Polygon Wood. 30th September 1917. © IWM (Q 2915)
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The Harvest of Battle. Nevinson, CRW. 1919. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 1921)
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Troops wearing gas-masks. Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 27 September 1917. © IWM (E(AUS) 825)
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Assault on Passchendaele 12 October - 6 November: A derelict tank stuck in the mud. © IWM (CO 2241)
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Battle of Pilckem Ridge.31 July 1917. © IWM (Q 5721)
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Cemetery Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the world
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The Battle of Ypres, successive states of Allied advance, July 30 - November 26 1917. Courtesy of 1914-1918.net
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Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Dulce et decorum est'. Courtesy of Modernism Lab at Yale University.
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