“Bloodbath and mudbath Seven stretcher bearers struggle to carry a wounded man to safety in Fl
“Bloodbath and mudbath Seven stretcher bearers struggle to carry a wounded man to safety in Flanders during the battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Prolonged shelling destroyed drainage ditches and turned the area around the shattered town of Ypres into a quicksand of impassable sucking mud that would bog down wounded men and drown them.”(IWM archives. Colourised by British photo technician Frank Augrandjean) -- source link
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