as a stallion in Ireland before being exported to Japan in 1964. Vimy was a bay horse with a narrow white stripe bred in France by this owner, Pierre Wertheimer...

The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais department of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were...

Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, GCB, GCMG, MVO (11 September 1862 – 6 June 1935), was a British Army officer who...

The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the...

Vimy (horse) a French Thoroughbred racehorse Vimy Memorial Bridge, previously the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge, bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Vimy...

Mount Sorrel Somme, 1916 Flers-Courcelette Ancre Heights Arras, 1917, '18 Vimy, 1917 Hill 70 Ypres, 1917 Passchendaele Amiens Scarpe, 1918 Hindenburg Line...

Mountain Horse in the First World War, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and was sent overseas. He fought at the Battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill...

Division. It was awarded 22 battle honours, including such notable actions as Vimy and Passchendaele. The other seven battalions – 9th, 66th (Edmonton Guards)...

The Governor General's Horse Guards is an armoured cavalry regiment in the Primary Reserve of the Canadian Army. The regiment is part of 4th Canadian...

World War; selected from a Commonwealth War Grave near Vimy, in the vicinity where the Battle of Vimy Ridge took place. A similar memorial was installed in...

Dragoons B Squadron: 1st Hussars C Squadron: 16th Light Horse The CLH participated in the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Hundred Days Offensive. The regiment's...

place to place. After the April 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge, one Canadian soldier recalled, "the horses were up to their bellies in mud. We'd put them on...

The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First...

Information Services Organisation - "Communications" 1st Canadian Division - "Vimy Ridge" 2nd Canadian Division - "Carillon" 3rd Canadian Division - "Invercargill"...

MOUNT SORREL Somme, 1916 Flers-Courcelette Ancre Heights ARRAS, 1917, '18 Vimy, 1917 HILL 70 Passchendaele Amiens Scarpe, 1918 Drocourt-Quéant Hindenburg...

German defences in forty-eight hours. At Arras the Canadians were to capture Vimy Ridge, dominating the Douai Plain to the east, advance towards Cambrai and...

was unbeaten in five races. In the following season, he became the first horse for thirty-five years to win the English Triple Crown, a feat that has not...

surgery earlier that year. Galileo was a 16 1⁄2 hh (64.5 inches, 164 cm) bay horse with a narrow white blaze and a white sock on his near hind leg. He was...

Vimy Peak is a 2,385-metre (7,825-foot) summit located in Waterton Lakes National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. It is set along the...

tactical doctrine, preparation and leadership under fire. The Battle of Vimy Ridge had significance for Canada as a young nation. For the first time the...

The German attack on Vimy Ridge (Unternehmen Schleswig-Holstein/Operation Schleswig-Holstein) was a local attack on the Western Front on 21 May 1916, during...

Festubert, 1915 Somme, 1916 Flers-Courcelette Ancre Heights Arras, 1917, '18 Vimy, 1917 Amiens Scarpe, 1918 Drocourt-Quéant Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord Cambrai...

track conditions. He is considered by many experts to be one of the best horses ever. He was the best Italian two-year-old of 1954, when his three wins...

from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome, England on 12 November 1919 in a Vickers Vimy, eventually landing in Darwin Australia on 10 December, taking less than...

are listed. Preserved trenches at Vimy Further preserved trenches at Vimy The Lions International Memorial at Vimy Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery is...

Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards. In 1936 the regiment amalgamated with the Mississauga Horse to become The Governor General's Horse Guards. Originated...

Mount Sorrel Somme, 1916 Flers–Courcelette Ancre Heights Arras, 1917, '18 Vimy, 1917 Hill 70 Ypres, 1917 Passchendaele Amiens Scarpe, 1918 Hindenburg Line...

all ranks, with 4,943 horses.[1] During its service in the First World War, the division fought at Ypres, Festubert, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele...

Governor General's Horse Guards), plus Army personnel stationed to the seasonal Ceremonial Guard, use the Guards Star in place of the Vimy Star on their shoulder...

Denmark Richard Jones Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1916-05-2121 May 1916* Vimy, France Thomas Jones Cheshire Regiment 1916-09-2525 September 1916 Morval...