The Battle for Vimy Ridge 1917 by Jack Sheldon & Nigel Cave

Author:Jack Sheldon & Nigel Cave [Sheldon, Jack & Cave, Nigel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, History, War, World War I, Military History, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781783460908
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2007-06-30T13:00:00+00:00

Canadian troops delighted to have been relieved.

The VC was gazetted in August; John Pattison was killed on 3 June 1917 and he is buried in La Chaudière Military Cemetery (VI C14). He was 41 when he won the VC; he had a son who also served in the war. He is the only one of the three VC winners that won their decoration in the battle and were subsequently killed in the war who has his own headstone (Sifton is in a mass grave in Lichfield Crater and Milne is on the Vimy Memorial. MacDowell died in 1960). The 44th Battalion worked its way into the northern end of La Folie wood, removing the last vestiges of German opposition there, and finally successfully connected the left flank of the 3rd Division with that of the left flank of the 4th. A thought should be spared for the quality of the German defence. Tiny surviving remnants of units put up an extraordinarily strong defence, having endured days of harsh punishment from the massed allied artillery, as well as undergoing the traumas of the attack of the 9 April. Those Bavarians were formidable and worthy opponents of the men of the 4th Division. On the morning of the 10th, 12 Brigade’s forward battalions worked their way forward, completed the capture of Hill 145 and made their way to the final objective, the Givenchy Line.

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