VIMY RIDGE.  FIVE MILE RIDGE  500 FT TALL  ONLY HIGH GROUND ON DOUAI PLAIN  SEIZED BY GERMANS IN 1914.

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VIMY RIDGE

 FIVE MILE RIDGE  500 FT TALL  ONLY HIGH GROUND ON DOUAI PLAIN  SEIZED BY GERMANS IN 1914

 FRENCH HAD ATTACKED IN 1915  BRITISH AS WELL  ALLIES 200,000 CASUALTIES  GERMANS 100,000  LINES UNCHANGED

 HUGE DUGOUTS  IMPREGNABLE  WELCOME CANADIANS  JULIEN BYNG  ARTHUR CURRIE

 MEN WERE TRUSTED  REHEARSALS  MAPS  AIR SUPERIORITY  CREEPING BARRAGE  INDIRECT FIRE

 PLATOON REORGANIZATION  MACNAUGHTON AND SCIENCE  TUNNELS  TUMP LINE

Vimy Memorial

A TRENCH AT VIMY PRESERVED AS PART OF THE MONUMENT.

Another terrain shot

More terrain

A FURTHER VIEW OF THE TRENCH LINES PRESERVED AT VIMY.

PART OF THE TUNNEL SYSTEM USED BY THE CANADIAN CORPS AT VIMY FOR PROTECTION AND SURPRISE. MANY WALLS ARE MARKED WITH THE STORY OF THE SOLDIER WAITING FOR BATTLE.

AERIAL VIEW OF THE MONUMENT. ALL THIS LAND IS NOW PART OF CANADA.

PART OF THE MONUMENT. NOTE THE INSCRIPTION.

PART OF THE SUCCESS AT VIMY WAS BECAUSE OF THE CDN WORK ETHIC. HERE MG POSTS ARE BEING SET UP.

MORE CANADIAN EFFORT AT VIMY

At work in vimy

ARTILLERY AND THE CREEPING BARRAGE PLAYED A KEY ROLE AT VIMY

A FRACTION OF THE SHELLS EXPENDED.

TANKS TOO MADE AN EARLY APPEARANCE

POST CARD SHOWING CANADIAN ADVANCE AT VIMY. THESE TYPES OF CARDS WERE PRODUCED FROM REAL SHOTS, TO BOOST MORAL.

Google says Vimy I say Passchendaele

MACHINE GUN POST AT WORK. INDIRECT FIRE WAS A GREAT INNOVATION AT VIMY.

OVER THE TOP AT VIMY. IN THE END THE INDIVIUAL SOLDIER STILL HAD TO TAKE THE RIDGE.

SOME OF THE GERMANS SURRENDERING AT VIMY. THE IMPREGNABLE FORTRESS HAD FALLEN.

AFTER THE WAR, TO COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY A BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT WAS ERECTED ON THE SITE.

PRICE FOR VICTORY WAS NOT CHEAP HOWEVER. THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS LIKE THIS ONE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE.

THOSE LEFT BEHIND, FOR WHOM REMEMBRANCE DAY IS ALL ABOUT.

DEDICATION PLAQUE

THE MEMORIAL AT VIMY RIDGE, HILL 145

DEDICATION INSCRIPTION ON PANEL

VIMY MONUMENT BEING RESTORED

VIMY TODAY

DURING CONSTRUCTION OF THE MONUMENT WORKERS USED EXTRA CONCRETE TO RESTORE SECTIONS OF CANADIAN AND GERMAN TRENCHES

RESTORED CANADIAN TRENCH LINE

SIGN FOR GERMAN FRONT LINE, WITHIN 50 FEET OF CDN

RESTORED GERMAN TRENCH LINE

CAUTION SIGN, ONE UNEXPLOED ORDINANCE FOR EVERY SQUARE FOOT. RED ZONED

REMNANTS OF CANADIAN LINE

TERRAIN MARKED BY WAR

HUGE CRATER FROM MINE EXPLOSION

ENTRANCE INTO GRANGE TUNNEL

THE MAPLE LEAF ROOM

UNEXPLODED FRENCH SHELL FROM 1915

COMMUNICATIONS ROOM INSIDE TUNNEL

VICTOR ODLUM’S QUARTERS IN TUNNEL

RAILWAY LINE INSIDE TUNNEL

RAILWAY TUNNEL INSIDE GRANGE TUNNEL

ARTIFACT ROOM WITH DISPLAY

SIGNS FOR CDN CEMETERIES AT VIMY

CANADIAN CEMETERY NO 2

DEDICATION PLAQUE AT CEMETERY

CANADIAN CEMETERY NO 2 VIMY RIDGE

THOUSANDS OF CANADIANS HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVES. THEY ARE SIMPLY KNOWN UNTO GOD

ANOTHER SHOT OF CANADIAN CEMETERY NO 2