Passchendaele

/ ˈpæʃənˌdeɪl /

noun

1. a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost

Example Sentences

"Someone at one time said it was like Passchendaele in the First World War," he said in 2022, as part of the BBC We Were There project.

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"Ukraine's 'martyr cities' like Mariupol, Bakhmut, Bucha makes one think of Leuven, Ypres and Passchendaele," Lodewyck said, listing names of the sites of the worst atrocities in Ukraine and World War One-era Belgium.

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My great-grandfather, Robert Raymond, died in October 1917 of wounds sustained at Passchendaele, during a battle that killed or wounded 600,000 soldiers over three months.

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Roberts fought during the World War One and survived the Battle of Passchendaele.

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Ms. Macdonald made her literary debut in 1978 with “They Called It Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres and of the Men who Fought in It.”

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