The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have joined Prime Minister Theresa May in Belgium to mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of Passchendaele - one of the bloodiest of World War One.
Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous ... wanted to reach the Belgian coast to destroy the German submarine bases there. On top of this, the possibility ...
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Battlefield tour guide Erwin Ureel, a former soldier with the Belgian army and a volunteer with the Passchendaele Society, hadn't heard of Glode prior to learning about him from Canadian organizers.
The Prince of Wales and First Minister Carwyn Jones have joined up to 1,000 people in Flanders, Belgium, for the Welsh centenary memorial of the Battle of Passchendaele. It was one of the ...
A solider from Brighton who died in the First World War has been buried in Passendale, Belgium, close to the ... War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) Passchendaele New British Cemetery on 16 October.
Presenter Dan Snow discusses why The Battle of Passchendaele was such a unique moment in the First World War. Passchendaele. The word itself conjures up an image of hell. A shattered landscape ...