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Passchendaele mud soldier slowly dissolves to mark centenary of battle

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Post by HoratioTarr Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:06 pm

Passchendaele mud soldier slowly dissolves to mark centenary of battle.

hen the great war poet Siegfried Sassoon wrote those haunting words “I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele” it was in part the mud of the battlefield he was recalling.

Intense shelling destroyed the drainage and the heaviest rains in 30 years turned the fields into a muddy quagmire, swallowing men whole and making progress near impossible.

One hundred years on from the start of the three-month battle that would claim the lives of as many as half a million troops, a sculpture of a soldier made from that same mud has evoked the awful conditions endured by those men.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/29/passchendaele-mud-soldier-slowly-dissolves-mark-centenary-battle/

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Post by HoratioTarr Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:07 pm

The mud swallowed men and animals, tanks and wagons and big guns. It must have been absolutely horrible, and hell on earth.
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Post by Syl Fri Aug 04, 2017 12:25 am

I heared about this the other day...like you said..hell on earth.

The sculpture is a very novel way to remember the poor souls who died such a terrible death.
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