The Battle of Passchendaele: Hertfordshire Regiment - BBC London News

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Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. As the country remembers one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict, our reporter Shaun Peel discovers the story of the Hertfordshire Regiment which was wiped out on Flanders fields on the very first morning.

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