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The Vimy Memorial displayed in a Canadian World War II recruitment poster. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial site has considerable sociocultural significance for Canada. The idea that Canada's national identity and nationhood were born out of the Battle of Vimy Ridge is an opinion that is widely repeated in military and general histories of ...
Walter Seymour Allward CMG RCA (18 November 1874 [1] – 24 April 1955) was a Canadian monumental sculptor best known for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.Featuring expressive classical figures within modern compositions, Allward's monuments evoke themes of memory, sacrifice, and redemption. [1]
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Givenchy Road Canadian Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War I situated on the grounds of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial Park near the French town of Neuville-Saint-Vaast.
Vimy (/ ˈ v iː m i / or / ˈ v ɪ m i /; French pronunciation:) is a commune in the French department of Pas-de-Calais. [3] 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 killed during the First World War.
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