This week marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Passchendaele battle during the Great War of 1914-1918. Passchendaele is located in Belgium just across the border from France, and the Germans were entrenched there. Torrential rain turned the battlefields into mud swamp land, where not only did the soldiers have to contend with the shells and bullets from the opposition trenches, but get caught off the marked out tracks, you could be sucked into the mud. Approximately over 270,000 British soldiers alone…
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100th Anniversary of the Passchendaele Battle: The West Ham players we lost
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