Battle of Langemarck, 19 August 1917

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102 YEARS AGO TODAY:  Battle of Langemarck, 19 August 1917.  A lesser campaign during the greater Battle of Passchendaele.  A British labour battalion marching along a road near Poperinghe.  French and British troops digging trenches together on Pilckem Ridge.  The Royal Garrison Artillery at Elverdinghe taking up shells by motor-driven light railway during the Battle of Langemarck.  Three cavalry men escorting a captured machine-gun crew who were buried by a shell-explosion in a dug-out, Brielen.  Infantry wearing bandoliers of ammunition in support trench at Wieltje. A 9.2-inch howitzer and the gunners of the Royal Garrison Artillery at St. Jean, 19 August 1917.