"...I died in Hell
(they called it Passchendaele) my wound was slight
and I was hobbling back; and then a shell
burst slick upon the duckboards; so I fell
into the bottomless mud, and lost the light"
. . . Siegfried Sassoon
Think about it from July 31, 1917 - November 14, 1917 over half amillion ailled troops were killed and a quater of a million german troops over a 5 mile piece of worthless land .. that equals out to 1 man dying every 2 inches of land gained..



