Love letters from First World War soldiers fighting in the Battle of Passchendaele have been revealed a hundred years on from the bloody clash on the Western Front. In total there were about 275,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. European royals marked the centenary of World War One's Battle of Passchendaele on in which thousands of soldiers were killed in ...

Mud. Mud like wet soap. Nothing could move in the mud. Guns were bogged for three days. They put 26 horses on one gun to drag it free. A Digger fell off duckboards in the dark and sank up to his neck.

During the Battle of Passchendaele in late 1917, Canadian troops were sent into a flooded wasteland of mud, shell holes, and relentless artillery fire, advancing yard by yard under impossible ...

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“So fruitless in its results, so depressing in its direction was the 1917 offensive, that ‘Passchendaele’ has come to be synonym for military failure, a name black-bordered in the records of the ...

He was one of the many fallen First World War soldiers for whom there is no private grave. In 1917, Private Jack Hunter died in his brother Jim's arms and was buried where he fell - in the mud at ...