The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the...
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Located 3.8 kilometers (2.4 mi) east of Vimy is the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Canadian soldiers who were...
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Combattants (July 30, 2020). "100 ans plus tard : la construction au Mémorial de Vimy - Anciens Combattants Canada". www.veterans.gc.ca. "Legacies of the...
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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...
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Souchez (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It is located 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) northwest of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated...
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Boulogne-sur-Mer Nausicaä Le Touquet Grand-Place of Arras Notre Dame de Lorette Canadian National Vimy Memorial, 11 kilometres from Arras Liberty Leading the People on...
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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...
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Vimy is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France Vimy may also refer to: Vimy, Alberta, hamlet in central...
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The Vimy Foundation is a charity focused on raising awareness of the role Canada played in World War I and the implications of Canada's success in the...
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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...
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pivotal centre of mulquinerie. Battle of Vimy Ridge Canadian National Vimy Memorial Regional Council of the Hauts-de-France Achicourt station "Téléchargement...
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Givenchy-en-Gohelle (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
the northwest, Liévin to the north, Avion to the east and Vimy to the southeast. The Bois de Givenchy or Givenchy Forest, covers much of the commune on...
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Canadian Red Ensign (section Vimy Ridge Red Ensign)
alongside the Maple Leaf flag at numerous war memorials, including the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. It is also used by veterans' groups...
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Canada) (category Canadian military memorials and cemeteries)
near Vimy, in the vicinity where the Battle of Vimy Ridge took place. A similar memorial was installed in June of 2024 at the National War Memorial in St...
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Thélus (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It is located four kilometres (2.5 mi) southeast of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial...
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Arras (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
ancient town founded by the Romans 2000 years ago). The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is just outside the town. Archaeologists found evidence of prehistoric...
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Australian National Memorial (Australian World War I memorial) Vimy Ridge Memorial (Canadian World War I memorial) Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the...
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(Cuinchy), Hinges, Le Touquet and Pont-de-Hem Cemeteries and the Missing are commemorated on the Vimy Memorial. The commemorative plaque was unveiled...
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Walter Seymour Allward (section Vimy Memorial)
a Canadian monumental sculptor best known for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Featuring expressive classical figures within modern compositions,...
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in the 102nd Battalion, CEF during World War I and died at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 and was the grandson of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Parkinson...
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The high point of the hump-backed ridge stands 165 metres high and – with Vimy Ridge – utterly dominates the otherwise flat Douai plain and the town of...
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design of the memorials to commemorate the Canadian participation in the First World War. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial at Vimy Ridge was selected...
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Canadian War Museum (section Memorial Hall)
Memorial. The museum's collection also includes the original scale plaster models by Walter Seymour Allward for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial....
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Battle of Verdun in World War I. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mémorial de Verdun. Sherman, Daniel J. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France...
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the Nord-Pas-de Calais, mostly British and Canadian, as well as large memorials such as the Canadian National Vimy Memorial and Notre Dame de Lorette, the...
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thus exploring the devastation of World War I, the building of the Vimy Memorial in France, and what Urquart calls "the redemptive nature of making art...
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Canada in World War I (section Battle of Vimy Ridge)
Canadian military achievement during the Great War came during the Somme, Vimy, and Passchendaele battles and what later became known as "Canada's Hundred...
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Neuville-Saint-Vaast (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) south of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated...
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other is the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Both sites are administered by the Veterans Affairs Canada. The memorial site and experience of the Newfoundland...
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Aftermath of World War I (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium Thiepval Memorial Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing at Passchendaele Verdun Memorial Museum Vimy Ridge Memorial, Vimy, France...
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