Photo's of the Western Front - Ypres Area C1938
Pilckem Ridge.
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The fields that saw disaster and then victory.
Pilckem Village can be seen on the horizon.
From Langmarck, half a mile away, rolled the first clouds of gas, followed by the retreat to the canal in 1915.
In 1917 these fields were again fought over, now become a bog powerfully fortified by enemy 'pill boxes', but captured inch by inch.