WW1 Tank Cemetery at Ypres - Passchendaele 1917

During the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, the battlefield around Ypres became a graveyard not only for men, but for machines. In this episode of The Old Front Line, we visit the location of the so-called Tank Cemetery near Ypres – a place where British tanks were swallowed by the mud during the Third Battle of Ypres and left where they bogged down. In the years after the war, the wrecks remained in situ, forming a haunting landmark for early battlefield pilgrims in the 1920s. We explore: How and why tanks were used on the Western Front in 1917 The reality of armoured warfare in the mud of Passchendaele What the “Tank Cemetery” was, where it was, and why it mattered How post-war visitors experienced the battlefield before clearance began What the landscape looks like today, and how it still connects us to the past Standing in the fields around Ypres, it’s still possible to understand why tanks failed here, and how the ground itself became one of the deadliest weapons of the First World War. If you’re interested in WW1 tanks, Passchendaele, Ypres battlefield history, or visiting the Western Front today, this episode takes you back to one of the most infamous landscapes of the war. Podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AO6ihE... Patreon:   / oldfrontline   BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldfront...