Passchendaele: a name written in blood
If getting killed by the thousands is glorious, it was glorious in the Ypres battle. My battalion came out 200 strong out of a thousand. It breaks my heart when…
At the grave of Jack Allsopp in France, 2015.
Uncle Jack Allsopp’s walk-on part at the Battle of Passchendaele.
Passchendaele was a word I grew up with because that was where my grandmother's favourite brother died. My grandmother's been gone from this world herself now for more than 50…