| Vimy Memorial |
| Pas de Calais, France |
| The Vimy Memorial overlooks the Douai
Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast
of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The memorial is signposted from this road
to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The
memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well
signposted.
On the opening day of the Battle of Arras, 9 April 1917, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps, fighting side by side for the first time, scored a huge tactical victory in the capture of the 60 metre high Vimy Ridge. After the war, the highest point of the ridge was chosen as the site of the great memorial to all Canadians who served their country in battle during the First World War, and particularly to the 60,000 who gave their lives in France. It also bears the names of 11,000 Canadian servicemen who died in France - many of them in the fight for Vimy Ridge - who have no known grave. The memorial was designed by W S Allward. No. of Identified Casualties: 11169 |
838492 Private
Campbell Clark
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
(Central Ontario Regiment)
23/04/1917, aged 22.
Son of Duncan and Maria Clark, of 615, 8th Street East, Owen Sound, Ontario. Enlisted in 147th Grey Bn. Nov., 1915.
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