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The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, took place in Belgium. It finished on 10th November 1917. It had lasted for 102 days and cost about 580,000 killed or wounded, of which about 275,000 were British.

The Remembrance Day service in Haddenham will be held in St Mary's Church on Sunday 12th November, starting at 3.00pm and will be followed immediately by a wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial at Church End.

"When you go home tell them of us and say for your tomorrow we gave our today"

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