A battlefield of imperishable memory ? The 1917 Belgium campaigns in Australian collective memory
Haultain-Gall, Matthew
The dreaded Ypres salient was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions , wrote one Anzac years after the First World War had ended. Surely few Australians who experienced the 1917 offensives in Belgian Flanders would disagree. At the battle of Messines and the third battle of Ypres,