Just before dawn on April 9, 1917, Lieutenant Claude Williams lay in a muddy trench in northern France, cold and shivering and ready for battle. During the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917, Canadians ...

Re: Scott Taylor’s Myths surrounding Vimy Ridge, April 9. The French had lost over 160,000 men in 1915 trying to get their ...

Later he was Commander of the Canadian Corps which distinguished itself at the Somme and Thiepval Ridge. Its greatest feat was the capture in 1917 of Vimy Ridge. In 1919 he was created Baron Byng of ...

When Jim MacDonald makes his pilgrimage to Vimy Ridge on Sunday, he will be guided by a 100-year-old map, which is stained with mud from the First World War battlefield, and now sits carefully ...

The Canadian Corps were able to take Vimy Ridge in just four days, far faster than I’ll get through the 394 pages of Cook’s book. But I already had in motion another way to honor the 10,000 ...