In memoriam: Battle of Passchendaele

31/07/1917 - 10/11/1917: 3 months, 1 week and 3 days

Casualties: The three-month military campaign, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, saw the deaths of 325,000 Allied and 260,000 German soldiers. In addition, only 8 million horses and donkeys died in World War 1, many in Passchendaele.

'On these fields of Passchendaele, skylarks sing and cattle graze; in these fields of Flanders lives were spent in far off days. No hint of what went on here!

No sign of blood and bones; but thousands of souls rest here beneath the white headstones; on these fields of Passchendaele, where roam the silent sheep, the only sound the wailing winds; those mothers who still weep:

Over fields of Passchendaele…..

Blip: Poppies in Gyle Park, 8am