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

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1 VIMY RIDGE

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

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

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

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

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

7 Vimy Memorial

8 A TRENCH AT VIMY PRESERVED AS PART OF THE MONUMENT.

9 Another terrain shot

10 More terrain

11 A FURTHER VIEW OF THE TRENCH LINES PRESERVED AT VIMY.

12 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.

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

14 PART OF THE MONUMENT. NOTE THE INSCRIPTION.

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

16 MORE CANADIAN EFFORT AT VIMY

17 At work in vimy

18 ARTILLERY AND THE CREEPING BARRAGE PLAYED A KEY ROLE AT VIMY

19 A FRACTION OF THE SHELLS EXPENDED.

20 TANKS TOO MADE AN EARLY APPEARANCE

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

22 Google says Vimy I say Passchendaele

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

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

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

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

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

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

29 DEDICATION PLAQUE

30 THE MEMORIAL AT VIMY RIDGE, HILL 145

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32 DEDICATION INSCRIPTION ON PANEL

33 VIMY MONUMENT BEING RESTORED

34 VIMY TODAY

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

36 RESTORED CANADIAN TRENCH LINE

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39 SIGN FOR GERMAN FRONT LINE, WITHIN 50 FEET OF CDN

40 RESTORED GERMAN TRENCH LINE

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

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44 REMNANTS OF CANADIAN LINE

45 TERRAIN MARKED BY WAR

46 HUGE CRATER FROM MINE EXPLOSION

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51 ENTRANCE INTO GRANGE TUNNEL

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53 THE MAPLE LEAF ROOM

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55 UNEXPLODED FRENCH SHELL FROM 1915

56 COMMUNICATIONS ROOM INSIDE TUNNEL

57 VICTOR ODLUM’S QUARTERS IN TUNNEL

58 RAILWAY LINE INSIDE TUNNEL

59 RAILWAY TUNNEL INSIDE GRANGE TUNNEL

60 ARTIFACT ROOM WITH DISPLAY

61 SIGNS FOR CDN CEMETERIES AT VIMY

62 CANADIAN CEMETERY NO 2

63 DEDICATION PLAQUE AT CEMETERY

64 CANADIAN CEMETERY NO 2 VIMY RIDGE

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

66 ANOTHER SHOT OF CANADIAN CEMETERY NO 2


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