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Passchendaele
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Passchendaele
a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost


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He fought at the notorious Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 -- where an estimated half a million troops perished.
Britain remembers sacrifices of WWI lost generation by AFP / AFP European Edition
THE Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Battle of Ypres, was one of the most horrific of the First World War.
MUDDY HELL ON BATTLEFIELD by The Mirror (London, England)
Mr Patch, who was 111 when he died, was the last British Army veteran of the First World War and the last to have served in the trenches of the Western Front, serving as an assistant gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, where 500,000 men died.
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