ⓒRebecca Bugge, All Rights Reserved
Do not use without permission.
At the Givenchy Road Canadian cemetery - a by First World War war cemetery standards tiny one. Here are 111 burials and, which is really unusual for the time, just 2 of them are unidentified. All buried here are Canadians, primarily from the Canadian 4th Division, and all fell April 9-13 1917 during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
At the Canadian National Vimy Memorial - including both a monument and a park with remains of the battlefield of Vimy Ridge, with trenches and the disrupted earth showing how the landscape looked not just here but along most of the Western front after the war.
The battle of Vimy Ridge was between Commonwealth troops (4 Canadian division and one British) and German forces on 9 to 12 April 1917 as part of the Battle of Arras. The Commonwealth had 170 000 men there, 3 598 died and 7 004 were wounded. It is not known how many of the Germans that were killed or wounded. (The memorial area also includes several Commonwealth war cemeteries.)
Loading contexts...
