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The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a World War I battle fought in 1917 near Arras in northern France. From the fall of 1914 until 1917 the German army held this eight kilometre-long ridge. From there they could see the Allied for miles in all directions. Several times the Allies tried to take it from the Germans without success. On 9 April, 1917 they attacked again. Four divisions of the Canadian attacked three divisions of the German 6th Army defending the ridge. The Battle was won by the Canadians on Easter Monday, 1917. It was the first time that Canadians had attacked as a national unit. However it cost the Canadians 10,602 casualties.

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  • USMA - Battle of Arras - Vimy Ridge derivative

    Location of the Battle of Vimy Ridge

  • Julian Byng (April 1917)

    Byng during the battle

  • Plan of Attack Vimy Ridge

    The Canadian Corps plan of attack outlining the four coloured objective lines – Black, Red, Blue and Brown

  • GermanDispositionsatVimy9April1917

    German dispositions at Vimy Ridge on the first day of the battle

  • Vimy Ridge 1917-barrage map

    Map showing rolling artillery barrage for advance

  • Model reproduction of German lines

    Large model of German trench lines

  • World War I - Vimy sector tunnel

    British-dug fighting tunnel in Vimy sector

  • RFC aircraft with aerial reconnaissance camera

    Observer of the Royal Flying Corps in a photographic reconnaissance aircraft, showing the camera

  • Defender and Attackers - Vimy Ridge

    Position of the defending and attacking forces before the battle

  • Naval gun firing over Vimy Ridge

    6-inch (150 mm) gun of the Royal Garrison Artillery behind Canadian lines, firing over Vimy Ridge at night

  • Smashing barbed wire with trench mortar shells

    Artillery-fire on a field of barbed wire at Vimy Ridge

  • Vimy Ridge - Canadian machine gun crews

    Machine gunners operating from craters on the plateau above the ridge

  • VimyDailMailFrontPage10April1917

    Front page of the Daily Mail on 10 April 1917

  • Vimy as seen from Vimy Ridge 1917-04

    Vimy as seen from Vimy Ridge May 1917

  • German prisoners captured during Battle of Vimy Ridge

    German soldiers captured during the battle.

  • Byng inspects captured trench mortars at Vimy Ridge May 1917 LAC 3213518 (cropped)

    Lt.-Gen. Sir Julian Byng views some Trench Mortars captured by the Canadians at Vimy Ridge. The large mortar in foreground is a 24 cm LadungsWerfer Ehrhardt.

  • HM King Edward VIII unveiling the figure of Canada on the Vimy Ridge Memorial

    King Edward VIII unveiling the figure Canada Bereft on the Vimy Ridge Memorial

  • Ghosts of Vimy Ridge

    Ghosts of Vimy Ridge, painting by Will Longstaff

See also

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