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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No references found			The Allied offensive to take the nearby village of Passchendaele began on July 31 but was thwarted by heavy German bombardments and torrential rain which turned the whole area into a hellish quagmire. MUDDY HELL ON BATTLEFIELD by The Mirror (London, England) Eileen Willett , organiser of the trip with the veterans and their families on their way to the battlefields and (below) the Tyne Cot cemetery at Passchendaele. Vets' pilgrimage to killing fields of Flanders; TRIP: Old soldiers ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) The 111-year-old was the last British Army veteran of the First World War and the last to have served in the trenches, as an assistant gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, where half a million men died. Farewell to the last fighting Tommy by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			passable Passacaglia Passage passage bed passage grave Passage Key National Wildlife Refuge passage number passage, rite passageway Passaic Passaic County Passalidae Passalides, John Passalurus Ambiguus Infestation Passamaquoddy Passamaquoddy Bay Passar, Andrei Passar, Andrei Aleksandrovich Passarge, Siegfried Passarowitz, Peace Treaties of 1718 Passarowitz, Treaty of Passau Passau, Treaty of 1552 Passband passbook Passchendaele Passek, Tatiana Passek, Tatiana Sergeevna Passek, Vadim Passek, Vadim Vasilevich passenger Passenger Car passenger elevator Passenger Pigeon passenger ship Passenger Transport Passepartout Passer Passer, Arent Passeres Passeriformes passerine Passiflora Passifloraceae passiflorin PASSIM Passing passing point passing track passings Passion			Passau, Germany Passau, Treaty of 1552 Passauer Neue Presse Passavant Roediger Umvelttechnik GmbH Passavant's bar Passavant's cushion Passavant's pad Passavant's ridge Passavant's ridge Passavant's ridge passband passband Passband Amplitude Modulation Passband signal Passband signal passbands passbands passbook passbook passbook Passbook account Passbook account Passbook account passbook savings account passbooks passbooks passbooks PASSC PASSCAL Passcape Outlook Express Password Recovery Passchendaele Passchendaele, Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of Passchendale Passchendale PASSCO Passcode Passcode Passcode PASSD passe passe passe passe passe passé passé passé passé Passe Musikalske Studiner Passe partout passe-partout passed passed passed passed passed passed passed as passed as passed as

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