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Vimy Ridge Memorial

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“On Easter Monday: 9 April 1917 the Canadian Expeditionary Corps launched an assault on Vimy Ridge. For the first time all four of the Canadian Divisions found themselves fighting alongside each other.

The memorial shows the names of 11,285 Canadians never found for burial, but is as much a memorial to all 66,655 Canadians who died fighting in the fields of France.”

Picture/text courtesy of [Vimy Ridge]

1 Comment so far

  1. heather
    October 15th, 2003

    | 2:10 pm

    hi i think my great grampa was killed there.