One hundred years on: The story of the Battle of Passchendaele in numbers
The battlefield in Belgium was turned into a hellish quagmire of mud and shell craters.
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The Battle of Passchendaele left hundreds of thousands of men dead and wounded, but was not the decisive breakthrough the British had hoped for, as soldiers were hampered by unseasonal wet weather and stiff German resistance.
The battlefield in Belgium was turned into a hellish quagmire of mud and shell craters as the fighting went on during the summer and autumn of 1917.
Here are some of the numbers associated with the battle:
Sources: PA Archive, Met Office, War Office Archive, Ministry of Defence, Imperial War Museum
