by Juliana Byers | Apr 14, 2024 | Australian History, Military History, Passchendaele, Post-1900, Travel, World War 1
…and then a shell burst slick upon the duckboards: so I fell into the bottomless mud and lost the light… – Siegfried Sassoon, “Memorial Tablet” (1918)1 In 2018, I realised a long-term dream of mine to visit Ireland. I’d been saving for years to go and had a wonderful...