Known more for its muddy horrors than its military triumph, Passchendale is the subject of a new exhibit at the Atwater Library that explores its fall from grace among Canada's First World War battle honours over the last 100 years. "It was a very tough objective, it cost a lot of lives, a lot of injuries and we just don't see it the same way we see Vimy," Bailey says. (Canadian War Museum)Instead, the photos of Passchendaele are haunting and bleak. "Mud, single people standing alone in this enormous, wet muddy landscape — the Passchendaele photos are just horrendous," Bailey says. This official war photograph of a Canadian soldier at Passchendaele captures the conditions the Canadian Corps faced during the battle.

Source: CBC News November 05, 2017 01:21 UTC