Battle of Vimy Ridge
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Oct 31, 2026
Paul ReedHOST
On the Somme, the famous one, breakthrough of British and Indian cavalry at High Wood.
Paul ReedHOST
At Arras, there was the cavalry assault on Montchil-le-Preux, Vimy Ridge.
Paul ReedHOST
The Canadian cavalry broke through on the southern part of the ridge.
Paul ReedHOST
and went on horseback over the ridge down into the plain towards Douai beyond and at Combré there was a number of British and Canadian cavalry units that broke through alongside the tanks there so there were these moments in which cavalry could be used to exploit all of that but equally as we mentioned the whole purpose of retraining your cavalry force to be foot soldiers as well as mounted troops meant that you could dismount them and in the early phase of the war when manpower was an issue many cavalry units were dismounted during the second battle of Ypres in April and May of 1915 when the front was looking pretty desperate and you needed every man in that front to stem the tide of the German advance using their poison gas.
speaker_0HOST
and we thought we'd add in a bit more underground.
speaker_0HOST
So this was the rather remarkable map of just this tiny bit of the battlefield of the First World War, Vimy Ridge.
DavePANELIST
It's probably just two kilometres, isn't it?
speaker_0HOST
If that, yeah, if that.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
Carolyn Black in Waterloo, Ontario.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
I recently visited World War I sites in Belgium, and I visited Vimy Ridge and a couple of concentration camps, all of which have been extremely impactful, as well as many other places in the world not related to war, which took us a long time to unpack after we got home.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
What place or experience has had the most impact on you and why? Hey, I...
Peter MansbridgeHOST
You know, like you, I was...
Peter MansbridgeHOST
Carolyn, I was impacted by Vimy Ridge, but also by Dieppe, those beaches at Dieppe where so many Canadians lost their lives or were captured in that disastrous 1942 raid, I think it was.
Peter MansbridgeHOST
Also...
Peter MansbridgeHOST
You know, the Juneau Beach, the Normandy beaches.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
983 guns and mortars erupted with an earth-shattering roar.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
The Battle of Vimy Ridge had begun.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Only days before the attack, Will Bird, suffering from mumps, had been removed to a field hospital behind the lines.
Will BirdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Towards morning, I lay awake and listened for the barrage.
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Lord Beaverbrook.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
In 1916, the killing fields of Ypres, predetermined by the strategy of defense, would give way to the equally dreadful experience of the Somme, as the British, including the Canadians and Newfoundlanders, moved to the attack, culminating in the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Thank you.
Jesse AlexanderHOST
I think he also served at the Battle of Arras in the spring of 1917.
Jesse AlexanderHOST
Famous to Canadians because the Battle of Vimy Ridge was a part of that wider battle.
Jesse AlexanderHOST
After the First World War is done, he ends up with the British occupying forces in the Rhineland, near Matthias' home region, more or less.
Jesse AlexanderHOST
Oh, it's not the Rhineland I'm from.
Greg KoabelHOST
Like many units that were raised in 1916, the 175th from Medicine Hat was broken up on arrival in Britain, its men distributed to reinforcement pools for battalions already in the front lines.
Greg KoabelHOST
The largest number of Japanese Canadians were sent to the 10th Battalion, which fought at Vimy Ridge in April 1917. but the reputation of the 10th was won a few months later at Hill 70.
Greg KoabelHOST
As you may recall, the Battle of Hill 70 took place outside the French industrial city of Lens.
Greg KoabelHOST
The Canadians took Hill 70, a position overlooking the city, in the hopes that it would convince the Germans to withdraw to a more tenable line.
16 MINS LATER
Greg KoabelHOST
The memorial, erected in Vancouver's Stanley Park, was commissioned and paid for by the Canadian Japanese Association through a community fundraising drive.
Greg KoabelHOST
But as a sign of inter-ethnic alliance building, the keynote address at the unveiling ceremony was delivered by Ian McKenzie, a demonstration of unity within the veterans' movement and a powerful message to white British Columbians.
Greg KoabelHOST
It didn't hurt that the unveiling coincided with the third anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the great symbol of Canada's achievements and sacrifices in the war, in which Japanese Canadians had fought and died.
Greg KoabelHOST
In the days following the memorial unveiling, British Columbia's provincial legislature debated a petition from 13 Japanese-Canadian veterans to overturn the racial bar on voting.
Annie SargentHOST
Today, I bring you a conversation with Jennifer Hanniman, a Canadian living in the Netherlands who travels often in the northeast of France.
Annie SargentHOST
We talk about using Lille as a base for World War I sites like Vimy Ridge and Ypres, and why Metz is underrated, and why you shouldn't visit Nancy over New Year's.
Annie SargentHOST
and why Alsace is worth a summer visit.
Annie SargentHOST
Before we start, this show runs on listener support.
7 MINS LATER
Jennifer HannimanGUEST
And every time we see something new and do something a little bit different.
Annie SargentHOST
Right.
Annie SargentHOST
So the ones that you've driven to from Lille are Vimy Ridge, which is spectacular.
Jennifer HannimanGUEST
Yeah.
Terry WenhamHOST
All they knew that he had been wounded and that the horse that was called Maria was killed.
Terry WenhamHOST
They knew that he'd been evacuated from the trenches and taken back into the tunnels at Vimy Ridge, where their grandfather was operated on by Canadian medics.
Terry WenhamHOST
And that was it.
Terry WenhamHOST
That's all they knew.
22 MINS LATER
Terry WenhamHOST
And Charles Frank Law lived until the 26th of February 1979, when he died at the age of 82.
Terry WenhamHOST
He died, what, 62 years later.
Terry WenhamHOST
after that horse was shot beneath him and then he was taken from the battlefields and treated by the Canadians at Vimy Ridge and returned to his home in Northampton but I bet he never forgot what happened that day because for the rest of his life he lived with a hole in the lower part of his leg where a piece of shrapnel had hit him on that day that was there for the rest of his days a big hole in his leg.
Terry WenhamHOST
On that battlefield tour, Andy and Matt walked the battlefield from Orange Hill across that meadow, which is now peaceful again.
Jason DonvilleGUEST
It was self-described soldiers killing children.
Allan DaleHOST
You know, in the Canadian military in our history, Vimy Ridge sort of stands out as a pivotal moment.
Allan DaleHOST
But the Balkans also stand out as a pivotal moment.
Allan DaleHOST
It was something there that, as you just described, we were not prepared for that.
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