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 | | Edward Elgar's Cello concerto was written in 1919 at his home in Sussex from where he had earlier heard the artillery of the war in Flanders, possibly from the Battle of Passchendaele. |
 | | British singer Chris de Burgh wrote the song "This Song for You", which describes a British soldier in Passchendaele who writes a letter to his 'darling' the night before the attack. |
 | | Indie band GoodBooks wrote "Passchendaele", a song which tells of a man "born at the end of the 19th Century" who goes off to fight, and die, at Passchendaele, "fighting for the cause, in the war to end all wars". |
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