Canada in the First World War and the road to Vimy Ridge

by Cedric Jennings

Publisher: Government of Canada, Veterans Affairs in Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Written in English

Published: 1992 Pages: 23 Downloads: 57

Places:

Canada.

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada.,
Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917.

Edition Notes

Classifications
Other titles	Canada pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et la route vers la crête de Vimy.
Statement	[written by Cedric Jennings].
LC Classifications	D547.C2 J46 1992
The Physical Object
Pagination	21, 23 p. :
Number of Pages	23
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL1473434M
ISBN 10	0662589289
LC Control Number	93136972

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The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during World War 9 April to 16 May , British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front. The British achieved the longest advance since trench warfare had begun, surpassing the record set by the French Sixth Army on 1 July The next day, Hill , the highest and most important feature of the Ridge, was captured in a frontal bayonet charge against machine guns. After the war it became the site of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, a monument to Canadian soldiers killed during the First World War. The Battle of Vimy Ridge is a battle that is of particular importance to the history of Canada and its role in World War Canadians today look back upon the Battle of Vimy Ridge as a defining moment in the country and a time when the country expressed its nationhood separate from that of Great Britain and the British Empire. Tim Cook, a historian at the Canadian War Museum and author of eight books about Canada at war, has made how the nation remembers World War II the subject of his latest book.

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One Military Cross (MC), 14 Military Medals(MM), and 1 Mentioned in Dispatches (MID) were awarded to members of the 87th Bn. Total casualties for the Battle were all ranks out of an attacking force of (%). 10 of the 11 officers who led the first wave, were casualties.

The Battle of Vimy Ridge in is considered to be a pivotal moment in Canada’s history. It was the first time that all four Canadian divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together in the First World War and is seen by some as the time that Canadians started to see themselves as an independent nation and not a colony of Great Britain.

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