Day: 24 April 2008

Europe

Exploring the Somme Battlefields

We started our tour of the Somme Battlefields with a visit to a number of National Monuments. The first of these was the Canadian Monument at Vimy Ridge, near Arras. It is an imposing monument on a long ridge  that cost many Canadian lives to gain. It features a woman (representing the `Young Canada` accepting […]

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