Passchendaele Research Paper

Blood stains the lifeless, barren battlefield that is Passchendaele, where just two days ago, 16,000 Canadian soldiers laid dead or wounded. Assigned the task of capturing the ridge from German control, many fell victim to the thick, gluey mud surrounding the ridge. The soldiers fighting at Passchendaele were under constant shellfire and suffered through a torrential downpour of rain. With Passchendaele’s ancient drainage system destroyed, the vast field soon became a flooded, muddy swamp. “The battle for Passchendaele was without a doubt one of the muddiest, bloodiest of the whole war” said
Canadian Arthur Turner of the Central Ontario Regiment. “Our feet were in water over the

tops of our boots, all the time.” Exploding shells