Oct. 12 marks a century since the deadly encounter in Belgium On Thursday, Prince William will be one of many commemorating the centennial of a particularly gruesome attempt to seize Passchendaele ...

"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, ...

During the Battle of Passchendaele in late 1917, Canadian troops were sent into a flooded wasteland of mud, shell holes, and ...

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 ...

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 remarkable bravery of the nurses who tended to wounded soldiers as bombs rained down on them during the Battle of Passchendaele has been highlighted in a new book. Nurses of Passchendaele uses the ...

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 ...