The Canadian corps finally took the village of Passchendaele on 6 November 1917.As for what life in the trenches was like, I will quote Siegfried Sassoon's poem, "Suicide in the Trenches":"I knew a simple soldier boyWho grinned at life in empty joy,Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,And whistled early with the lark.In winter trenches, cowed and glum,With crumps and lice and lack of rum,He put a bullet through his brain.No one spoke of him again.You smug-faced crowds with kindling eyeWho cheer when soldier lads march...