#vimy

[potatoeitsmeh2]

Imma just art dump some of my OC here👀 (feat. Graves)

[gogandmagog]

Vimy veteran Carl Montgomery (Maud’s brother, for whom her ‘Rainbow Valley’ and ‘Rilla of Ingleside’ character Carl Meredith was likely named) with Stuart Macdonald, Leaskdale, 1918. Photo by L.M. Montgomery.

[theworldofwars]

Canadian machine gunners on Vimy Ridge. 1917

[wearepeace]

The Canadian National Vimy Memorial honours all Canadians who served during the First World War. The Memorial bears the names of those who died in France with no known grave. It is located at the site of Canada’s victory during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

[philoursmars]

Nouveau retour à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 55500 photos (et des brouettes).  Plus trop loin du présent….  

2016. En Artois, le parc du Mémorial canadien de Vimy. Les souterrains, les tranchées reconstituées et la forêt reformée sur les cratères d’obus...

[ukdamo]

Ghosts of War

E Alan Mackintosh

When you and I are buried With grasses over head, The memory of our fights will stand Above this bare and tortured land, We knew ere we were dead.

Though grasses grow at Vimy, And poppies at Messines, And in High Wood the children play, The craters and the graves will stay To show what things have been.

Though all be quiet in day-time, The night shall bring a change, And peasants walking home will see Shell-torn meadow and riven tree, And their own fields grown strange.

They shall hear live men crying, They shall see dead men lie, Shall hear the rattling Maxims fire, And by the broken twists of wire Gold flares light up the sky.

And in their new-built houses The frightened folk will see Pale bombers coming down the street, And hear the flurry of charging feet, And the crash of Victory.

This is our Earth baptizèd With the red wine of War. Horror and courage hand in hand Shall brood upon the stricken land In silence evermore.

[oldcanada]

Vimy Pilgrimage, aerial crowd image. Vimy, France. 1936.

Source LAC

[thedeadofflandersfields]

Vimy Ridge, 1917. Canadian machine gunners dug in with their guns.