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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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Statue Park, Szoborpark or Statue Park is a park in Budapest's XXII. district, with a gathering of monumental Soviet-era statues. Liberty Statue, The Szabadság Szobor or Liberty Statue (sometimes Freedom Statue) in Budapest, Hungary, was first erected in 1947 in remembrance of the Soviet liberation of Hungary from Nazi forces during World War II.
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.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. ... (9–15 May 1915) – French attack towards Vimy Ridge; Third Battle of Artois ... to shelter a statue of the ...
This small cemetery contains the graves of 109 Canadian soldiers, principally of the Canadian 4th Division (rest with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry), all of whom fell between April 9, 1917 and April 13, 1917 during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.