"I died inward hell – they called it Passchendaele."
- Siegfried Sassoon
This calendar week marks the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the Battle of Passchendaele, the First World War elbow grease that lasted from from July to Nov 1917.
The opening develop on of the battle took identify inward heavy rain. In this heavy downpour the depression lying province was churned upwards past times the men, horses, equipment as well as heavy shelling as well as the province became a bounding main of thick mud. Through this clinging mud the men had to onset High German concrete car gun emplacements. Many of those who weren't killed past times the High German guns drowned inward that clinging mud.
It is impossible to imagine Sassoon's 'hell' or the reality faced past times the Allied soldiers. You tin post away yet sense a minor purpose of the horror as well as hell of Passchendaele past times viewing the Royal British Legion's 360 grade videos of Passchendaele. Passchendaele inward 360 includes a serial of 360 grade videos which elbow grease to choose something of the reality of the battle for those immature soldiers far from home.
The videos combine first-hand well accounts, diary excerpts, as well as archive celluloid as well as photos. You tin post away sentry the videos on a desktop estimator simply for the amount virtual reality result they should live viewed alongside Google Cardboard or whatever other type of VR set.
