Canadian Soldiers take back a wounded from the front during the battle of Passchendaele; ca. November, 1917

Douglas Haig’s chief of staff, Launcelot Kiggell, reportedly broke down and wept when he finally visited the Passchendaele battlefield in the autumn of 1917, saying “Good God, did we really send men to fight in that?”

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