From the Daily Mail:
They are the most remarkable pictures of one of the most hellish places on earth.
Never seen before, these astonishing photographs, lovingly hand-touched in colour to bring to life the nightmare of Passchendaele, were released this week to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the battle that, between July and November 1917, claimed a staggering 2,121 lives a day and in total some quarter of a million Allied soldiers.
(Thanks PVC)
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3 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.crazy .. looks like a nightmare .. my grandfather did fight there .. some of the nastiest battles were fought in Belgium during ww2
Hello, I was moved to write this poem a few years ago. It is in my book, Poems of Innocence. The poem opened a Remembrance day CBC programme in 2004 with Donna Macellogot. You may use it, recognising the copyright.
The Lost Legions.
How can I thank you, for my freedom?
How can I possibly re-pay you,
For the life that I innocently enjoy?
How can I thank you, for being able to walk
On a quiet beach, feeling no danger?
How can I thank you, for letting me be myself?
For you are long-dead, or newly dead,
And my words can ease no pain.
But, I can live some of my life for me,
And some of my life for you.
Take my hand! Look out through my eyes!
And I will let you see all the good things
That you have made possible.
Copyright 2007 Norman Henry Kendrick.
I’m sorry to say that the coloured picture above is a fake. The German gunners have been pasted onto another photo of a WWI battlefield and the result then coloured by hand. In the original, a British Tank can be seen in the background. (It appeared in the Daily Mail, which fakes a lot of things)
There are lots of genuine colour photographs of the Great War, mostly taken by photographers working for a French entrepreneur called Albert Kahn. If you google him you’ll find plenty, but I’m afraid this pic isn’t one of them.