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) west 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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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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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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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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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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Boulogne-sur-Mer Nausicaä Le Touquet Grand-Place of Arras Notre Dame de Lorette Canadian National Vimy Memorial, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Arras Liberty Leading the...
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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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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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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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(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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commemorated at the Vimy Memorial, and Indian Army soldiers, whose names appear on the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial. Those commemorated on this memorial include the...
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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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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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mulquinerie. Battle of Vimy Ridge Canadian National Vimy Memorial Regional Council of the Hauts-de-France Achicourt station "Populations de référence 2022" (in...
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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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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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The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the...
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of St. Denis. The war memorial. The nearby Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. The nearby Canadian National Vimy Memorial Avion is twinned with:...
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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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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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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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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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Vis-en-Artois Memorial is a World War I memorial located near the commune of Vis-en-Artois, in the Pas-de-Calais département of France. The memorial lists 9...
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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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the words: "Their name liveth for evermore." The memorial's French inscription says: A la gloire de Dieu et en souvenir durable des 3888 officiers et...
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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 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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