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This is Percival William Anderson's map of Hill 145. Vimy Ridge, in northeastern France, was a key position for the Germans from the beginning of the First World War.
A model created by a group of youth for the Saskatoon Museum of Military Artifacts honours the Saskatchewan and Manitoba boys who contributed to the Vimy Ridge battle of WWI.
Van Vloten: Why Vimy Ridge is more important than ever, 105 years later Thousands of Canadians paid the ultimate price in April 1917, and the least we can do to honour their legacy is learn from it.
Your First World War stories: Globe readers, in their own words, on loved ones who fought at Hill 70, Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele ...
A 2017 European spec Jeep Cherokee is shown parked near the entrance to the Canadian National Vimy Memorial atop Hill 145, the highest point of the Battle of Vimy Ridge on July 9, 1917. — One such was ...
Towering over the Douai Plain atop the highest point of Vimy Ridge, known as Hill 145, the monument stands where Canadian forces faced some of the toughest fighting of the three-day Battle of Vimy ...
Google has made it possible to explore Vimy Ridge via its Street View tool. Here’s why they did it. Over two trips—one in late fall 2016 and then again this February—Google mapped Vimy Ridge ...
Vimy Ridge is where Canada’s National Memorial for the First World War is located. The monument is stunning, seen from kilometres away on top of Hill 145. Beaumont-Hamel is located in the Somme.
While on vacation in France in 2019, Roger Pyke and his wife, Jennifer, visited the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in northern France to honour Canadian soldiers killed or presumed dead during the ...
The 72nd battalion was assigned an “honoured” spot between two high points of the ridge — Hill 145 (where a monument stands today) on the right and The Pimple on the left.