The Anzacs at Passchendaele

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA, His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery, and Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand are in Belgium at the Tyne Cot Cemetary (the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war) for the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele to honour the 40,000 diggers who fell in the Autumn of 1917. See also: The Queen at Passchendaele.

Her Excellency Mrs Marlena Jeffery honours fallen Anzacs

From Wikipedia: More than any other battle, Passchendaele has come to symbolise the horrific nature of the great battles of the First World War and the uselessness of the tactics employed. The Germans lost approximately 270,000 men, while the British Empire forces lost about 300,000, including approximately 36,500 Australians, 3,596 New Zealanders and 16,000 Canadians — the latter of which were lost in the intense final assault between 26 October and 10 November; 90,000 British, New Zealand and Australian bodies were never identified, and 42,000 never recovered. Aerial photography showed 1,000,000 shell holes in a 1 square mile area.

"I died in Hell
(they called it Passchendaele); my wound was slight
and I was hobbling back; and then a shell
burst slick upon the duckboards; so I fell
into the bottomless mud, and lost the light"
― Siegfried Sassoon