Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Canberra: In a hellish landscape of shattered trees, mud, shell explosions and machine-gun fire, soldiers died by the score; blown to ...

On Thursday, Prince William will be one of many commemorating the centennial of a particularly gruesome attempt to seize Passchendaele Ridge in Belgium from the Germans. Fought by troops from Britain, ...

Awful conditions led to some soldiers drowing in the mud-swamped trenches (Picture: Fotosearch/Getty Images) This week people across the UK have been remembering the horrors Passchendaele – one of the ...

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"The more I think of our assault the more wonderful it appears, we were given almost the impossible to do and did it." These lines, written by Lt. Col. Agar Adamson to his wife Mabel on Nov. 8, 1917, ...

The lonely, eerie sound of a bugle is one that locals in Ypres, Belgium, are well used to. But for the thousands of Britons gathered around the imposing white stone memorial of Menin Gate, it may be ...

The multihyphenate Paul Gross gets lot of credits on his new film, Passchendaele: director, writer, star and composer, to which he could add: Seeker of the elusive grail of Canadian popular taste.

An official Government of Canada delegation is in Ypres, Belgium, from Nov. 7 to 12 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele, which has become an enduring symbol for Canadians of ...

It was a lesson hard-learned in the mud and blood of Flanders: How thousands of lives can be thrown away for nothing. But now, more than 100 years later, horror scenes that echo one of the First World ...

Passchendaele, Somme, Arras, Cambrai, Verdun, Dardanelles, Ypres and Jutland. There were not only the names of World War One battles, but also the names given to babies, usually in commemoration of a ...

"No words of mine can soften the blow. There is one consolation for you - your daughter became unconscious immediately after she was hit, and she passed away perfectly peacefully." This was how Minnie ...