This series commemorates the 100-year anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele and Canada's role in the First World War and its enduring legacy. The battlefield at Passchendaele was a sea of mud, ...

Lesley Barron Kerr has long wondered what became of the Victoria Cross her great-grandfather, Colin Barron, received for heroism at the Battle of Passchendaele — until she found it on the auction ...

"The more I think of our assault the more wonderful it appears, we were given almost the impossible to do and did it." These lines, written by Lt. Col. Agar Adamson to his wife Mabel on Nov. 8, 1917, ...

In reality the plan was already beginning to unravel at the battle of Poelcapelle on October 9, 1917, due mostly to the arrival of autumn rains that once again turned the battlefield into a sea of mud ...

Passchendaele. More than 500,000 people, including 15,000 Canadians, were killed or wounded during the prolonged fight, as weeks of rain and shell fire churned the battlefield into a sea of mud. Yet ...

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Veterans' Affairs Minister Rick Barker attended a special commemorative service to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele at the National War Memorial in Wellington today. The Battle ...

FORMER soldiers were among those to remember the fallen of the Battle of Passchendaele a century ago, one of the bloodiest chapters of the First World War. St Helen's Church in Fish Street, Worcester ...

Private Isaac Claridge was one of three Christchurch brothers killed fighting in the Great War. The trio, who grew up in Chapel Street off Harewood Road, were among 500 young men to march from Papanui ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Experts believe 100,000 soldiers remain unaccounted for in Passchendaele, Belgium, 90 years after one of World War I's bloodiest battles ...