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Woodstock Remembers Vimy Ridge

Monday, 10 April 2017 at 05:47

The people of Woodstock honoured the memory of those who fought and died during the Battle of Vimy Ridge

WOODSTOCK - The sun may have been shining, but a somber mood descended over the Woodstock Cenotaph as a crowd gathered to honour the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

There were over 10,500 Canadian casualties in the battle. About 3,600 Canadian soldiers lost their lives.

Retired Naval Lieutenant Art Caravan was the master of ceremonies at the memorial. He was able to honour some of the brave Woodstock men who died in the battle.

"We had Mr. McKaskell resource the names of the First World War off our cenotaph and to find that was 36 names that were killed in Vimy Ridge from Woodstock is truly amazing and I appreciate his work and effort into doing that for us."

The ages of these men range from 19 to 39.

Caravan believes it's important to keep Canada's troops of both the past and present in our thoughts.

"I don't think we should ever forget the battles that our forces have taken part in. Even today as we speak they are in different parts of the world whether it be peacekeeping, they're still in harm's way and anything can happen so we must always be supportive of our troops."

The battle of Vimy Ridge took place between April 9th and 12th of 1917. 

This coming October will also mark the 100th anniversary of another major battle in Canada's history: Passchendaele. Canada had almost 16,000 casualties in that battle.

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