Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. European royals marked the centenary of World War One's Battle of Passchendaele on in which thousands of soldiers were killed in ...

PASSCHENDAELE, Belgium (Reuters) – Relatives read letters and diary excerpts from soldiers who died in the World War One battle of Passchendaele when they gathered on Monday for a ceremony to mark 100 ...

This summer marks the start of the 90th anniversary commemorations for the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. From June to November 2007, a number of special events and memorials will be held in the ...

Oct. 12 marks a century since the deadly encounter in Belgium On Thursday, Prince William will be one of many commemorating the centennial of a particularly gruesome attempt to seize Passchendaele ...

“So fruitless in its results, so depressing in its direction was the 1917 offensive, that ‘Passchendaele’ has come to be synonym for military failure, a name black-bordered in the records of the ...

Love letters from First World War soldiers fighting in the Battle of Passchendaele have been revealed a hundred years on from the bloody clash on the Western Front. In total there were about 275,000 ...

EVERY month archivist Steve Berridge transcribes the war diary and regimental chronicle of the 2nd Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He is a volunteer at the Soldiers of ...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth yesterday visited Belgium to mark the 90th anniversary of the start of the World War I battle of Passchendaele. The third battle of Ypres was the last great battle of ...

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