29 июл. 2017 г. · Half a million soldiers were estimated to have been killed or wounded during the 100-day battle and one name keeps coming back: Passchendaele, ...

A million soldiers from more than 50 different countries were wounded, missing or killed in action here. Entire cities and villages were destroyed, their ...

There was much trench mortaring, mining and raiding by both sides and from January to May, the Second Army suffered 20,000 casualties. ... battle in Flanders.

The Division suffered 2,700 casualties, of which, 843 died on this single day making it New Zealand's worse disaster in history – our darkest day. In fact, ...

A total of nearly half a million casualties were suffered by the armies on both sides, and all the ground that had been gained by the Allies was evacuated the ...

Some 210,000 Irish fought in the British Army in the Great War. By some estimates more than 49,000 perished. · Irish conscripts and volunteers faced tough ...

Casualties among British Empire forces numbered in excess of 55,000. ... Canadian officer John McCrae was inspired to write his poem 'In Flanders Fields ...

The British lost an estimated 275,000 casualties at Passchendaele to the German's 220,000, making it one of the war's most costly battles of attrition. The more ...

31 июл. 2017 г. · The British suffered 300,000 casualties fighting for Passchendaele, and inflicted around 260,000 on the Germans. The British had taken the high ...