Passchendaele
1.The war started on the 31st of July, 1917 2.The mud at Passchendaele slowed down the movement to crawl and left troops exposed to enemy fire 3.The British in Flanders had aimed to drive the Germans away from the channel ports. 4.After months of fighting, Passchendaele ridge was still held by German troops 5.Sir Douglas Haig Haig, the commander-in-chief of the British Expenditionary Force ordered the Canadians the deliver victory. 6.Sir Arthur Currie, commander of the Canadian Corps, objected to the battle at first, fearing it could not be won without a lot of lives being lost. 7.The Canadians arrived in Flanders for the first time, in mid-October. 8.The Canadians came to save Australian and New Zealand troops. 9.The weather in Flanders was so bad that the rain was making mud that was hard for the troops to walk in. 10.Horses and Mules brought hundreds of thousands of shells for the front to prepare for the artillery. 11.The Germans had the high ground in Passchendaele ridge and fired continuously below. 12.By mid-November having captured the ridge, that 15 654 Canadian troops had fallen. 13.The British lost and estimate of 275 000 troops at Passchendaele to the German’s 220 000 troops that had died. 14.The loss of the troops made this war one of the most costly battles of attrition. 15.The Canadian Corps sent a strong fighting formation of 120 000 men in mid-October. |
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Unknown child
Dear Unknown Child
It did hurt.. to leave everyone and everything behind, a chance that my good byes might have been my last I feel alone
Hello Unknown child Thank you for your letter. It makes me untroubled that you all still learn about me and my companions in school. After I severed and did my “time” you could say I always thought back to when I was in the trenches wondering if I was going to die thinking will people remember me a generation from now, to my luck you did, it sends me over the moon! happiness jolts through my body the same feeling I had when I got when life was not corrupted when I was little. I only prayed to the gods above that you are free in a world we’re you have the right live and walk the streets, they heard my prayers, yet still... you can’t beat the demons out of everyone. I understand you all still have problems.
As I was reading your letter it was brought to my attention that you now have cell phones and Laptops that fit right on your lap back then we had a land line and one big dusty computer that always shut off in the middle of things it truly does amaze me how the world has evolved since the Great War. The Great War you did ask about that as well I’m not sure what to say the screams the crying the acheing legs the food. oh lord the food. I did horrible things. Things I never in a million years and beyond thought of doing it still haunts me till this day in me after life the things the tragic time in a lot of people’s life including mine. I never would have thought that I would be standing on that field trying to prepare myself for death but the thoughts about never seeing my family made it even harder, I never thought I would die that way. Child I hope you never had to go through what We has to. the guilt of ending another’s life just to go on and pray for your own.. they were humans just like you and me the guilt of wondering why did he or she die and not me why do I stand on this ground with a beating heart in my chest while there lies my friend dead in his tracks doing his job serving his country. Why me?
It did hurt.. to leave everyone and everything behind, a chance that my good byes might have been my last I feel alone
Hello Unknown child Thank you for your letter. It makes me untroubled that you all still learn about me and my companions in school. After I severed and did my “time” you could say I always thought back to when I was in the trenches wondering if I was going to die thinking will people remember me a generation from now, to my luck you did, it sends me over the moon! happiness jolts through my body the same feeling I had when I got when life was not corrupted when I was little. I only prayed to the gods above that you are free in a world we’re you have the right live and walk the streets, they heard my prayers, yet still... you can’t beat the demons out of everyone. I understand you all still have problems.
As I was reading your letter it was brought to my attention that you now have cell phones and Laptops that fit right on your lap back then we had a land line and one big dusty computer that always shut off in the middle of things it truly does amaze me how the world has evolved since the Great War. The Great War you did ask about that as well I’m not sure what to say the screams the crying the acheing legs the food. oh lord the food. I did horrible things. Things I never in a million years and beyond thought of doing it still haunts me till this day in me after life the things the tragic time in a lot of people’s life including mine. I never would have thought that I would be standing on that field trying to prepare myself for death but the thoughts about never seeing my family made it even harder, I never thought I would die that way. Child I hope you never had to go through what We has to. the guilt of ending another’s life just to go on and pray for your own.. they were humans just like you and me the guilt of wondering why did he or she die and not me why do I stand on this ground with a beating heart in my chest while there lies my friend dead in his tracks doing his job serving his country. Why me?