Fifteen thousand Canadian men were killed, wounded or reported missing in the fighting at Passchendaele between October and November 1917.
"New [battery] position an awful mud hole. Simply covered with mud all the time and generally wet."
Lieutenant Brooke Ferrar Gossage, soldier
"Good God, did we really send men to fight in that?"
British Lieutenant General Sir Launcelot Kiggell
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