Battle of passchendaele

German soldiers in a trench protected by metal sheeting at Battle of PASSCHENDAELE

Another old fave colourised. Original OOC as far as I'm aware. There is a fairly appalling film about Passhendaele, plot and subtexts letting down some good acting. Shame really. Having said that I'm not sure how you make a film which is basically about people slowly drowning under shellfire. I read somewhere that only the chap at the MG survived this particular debacle unharmed, all of the other men in this photo were injured, died or vanished.

D 4903. British troops help with the harvest somewhere in England. Men can be seen standing on top of a hay cart loading straw into a machine which sorts the harvest into sacks

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A timeline of events before, during and after the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), one of the bloodiest episodes of the First World War.

IWM’s collections cover all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict involving Britain, the Commonwealth and other former empire countries. They were intended to record the 'toil and sacrifice' of every individual affected by war.

Battle of Langemarck. British soldiers (said to be watching the bombardment of the enemy lines). Near Zuydcoote, 16th August 1917.

WWI, 11 April 1918; A Royal Engineers officer fixing a demolition charge in readiness for blowing up a bridge over the La Bassee Canal at Bethune, Battle of Estaires. © IWM (Q 10889)

Images of Russian soldier Maria Bochkareva and British nurse Edith Cavell appear in The Great War in Portraits, an exhibition that begins next month.