"I died inwards hell – they called it Passchendaele."
- Siegfried Sassoon
This calendar week marks the 100th anniversary of the starting fourth dimension of the Battle of Passchendaele, the First World War induce that lasted from from July to Nov 1917.
The opening ready on of the battle took identify inwards heavy rain. In this heavy downpour the depression lying country was churned upward past times the men, horses, equipment in addition to heavy shelling in addition to the country became a body of body of water of thick mud. Through this clinging mud the men had to onset German linguistic communication concrete auto gun emplacements. Many of those who weren't killed past times the German linguistic communication guns drowned inwards that clinging mud.
It is impossible to imagine Sassoon's 'hell' or the reality faced past times the Allied soldiers. You tin nevertheless sense a small-scale piece of occupation of the horror in addition to hell of Passchendaele past times viewing the Royal British Legion's 360 bird videos of Passchendaele. Passchendaele inwards 360 includes a serial of 360 bird videos which endeavor to select something of the reality of the battle for those immature soldiers far from home.
The videos combine first-hand well accounts, diary excerpts, in addition to archive celluloid in addition to photos. You tin scout the videos on a desktop calculator only for the sum virtual reality resultant they should live viewed alongside Google Cardboard or whatever other type of VR set.
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