50.9°N 3.0°E Western Front Passchendaele (Third Ypres)
Briefing
From July to November 1917 the British offensive in Flanders bogged down in a swamp of shell-cratered mud churned by the heaviest rains in decades, where wounded men drowned where they fell. After half a million casualties on both sides the village of Passchendaele was taken — and the name became a byword for the futility of trench warfare.
