The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the...
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HMCS Vimy was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following...
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democratic values HMS Vimy (D33), 1917 British V-class destroyer known as HMS Vancouver (1917), renamed HMS Vimy in April 1928 HMCS Vimy, Battle class naval...
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class) HMCS St. Eloi (Battle class) HMCS St. Julien (Battle class) HMCS Thiepval (Battle class) HMCS Vimy (Battle class) HMCS Ypres (Battle class) HMCS Baleine...
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HMCS Hunter is a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve Division (NRD) located in Windsor, Ontario. Dubbed a stone frigate, HMCS Hunter is a land-based naval training...
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artifact at the Elgin Military Museum is the Vimy Poppy, which was picked by a soldier from St. Thomas on Vimy Ridge a few weeks after the battle began on...
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Canada in World War I (section Battle of Vimy Ridge)
(renamed HMCS Canada) and CGS Margaret, were immediately pressed into naval service, joining HMCS Niobe, HMCS Rainbow and the two submarines HMCS CC-1 and...
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Limited HMCS St. Eloi minesweeper 138 1917 Polson Iron Works Limited HMCS St. Julien minesweeper 139 1917 Polson Iron Works Limited HMCS Vimy minesweeper...
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(commonly referred to as 1 Wing Kingston) Royal Canadian Navy HMCS Cataraqui CSTC HMCS Ontario - Sea Cadet Summer Training Centre Canadian Forces Joint...
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HMCS Messines (Battle class) HMCS St. Eloi (Battle class) HMCS St. Julien (Battle class) HMCS Thiepval (Battle class) HMCS Vimy (Battle class) HMCS Ypres...
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(1915) HMCS Messines (1917) minesweeper HMCS St. Eloi (1917) minesweeper HMCS St. Julien (1917) minesweeper HMCS Vimy (1917) minesweeper HMCS Ypres (1917)...
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Walter Seymour Allward (section Vimy Memorial)
was a Canadian monumental sculptor best known for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Featuring expressive classical figures within modern compositions...
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reserve bands: HMCS Chippawa Band (Winnipeg) HMCS Donnacona Band (Montreal) HMCS Montcalm Band (Quebec City) HMCS Star Band (Hamilton) HMCS Tecumseh Band...
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operation of all 24 NRDs across Canada. Co-located with NAVRESHQ is NRD HMCS Montcalm, Naval Fleet School (Quebec) (NFS(Q)) and the Naval Museum of Quebec...
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officer of various ships including the minesweepers HMCS Chaleur and HMCS Miramichi and the destroyer HMCS Iroquois. He was appointed commander of the First...
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HMCS St. Eloi was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following...
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Vimiera V (Admiralty) Destroyer 1,272 19 September 1918 sunk 9 January 1942 Vimy Destroyer 1,272 28 December 1917 paid off March 1947 Vincenzo Gioberti Regia...
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Naval and Army Reserve units including: HMCS Tecumseh, a Naval Reserve unit, and HMCS Tecumseh Band at the HMCS Tecumseh Building at 1820 24 Street SW...
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HMCS Messines was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following...
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wooden Celtic cross was dedicated to the officers, NCO's and men who fell at Vimy Ridge. A plaque was erected by their fellow officers and men in honour of...
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defence. Nearby Vimy Barracks was established in 1937 for the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (later the Royal Canadian School of Signals). Vimy and McNaughton...
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Festubert, 1915 Mount Sorrel Somme, 1916 Thiepval Ancre Heights Arras, 1917, '18 Vimy, 1917 Arleux Hill 70 Passchendaele Amiens Scarpe, 1918 Drocourt–Quéant Hindenburg...
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support the coalition, comprising destroyers HMCS Terra Nova and HMCS Athabaskan, and the supply ship HMCS Protecteur. The Canadian Task Group led the...
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down and bombed the U-boat, and then Canadian corvettes HMCS Halifax and Snowberry attacked. HMCS Oakville fired depth charges which forced the submarine...
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HMS Campobello (T378) Reinforcements Destroyers: USS Babbitt (DD-128), HMS Vimy USCG Cutter: USCGC Ingham (WHEC-35) Raubgraf U-84, U-89, U-91 U-435 U-468...
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do so solely on behalf of Canada when he dedicated the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. Following Edward's abdication that same year, his brother...
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September; HMS Vimy, one of the escorts of a small convoy went to investigate. Deciding that the raft could be a disguised U-boat, Vimy opened fire, luckily...
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Canadian Air Force, as well as a sailor in the Royal Canadian Navy from HMCS Stadacona. Two mounted figures—a member of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade and...
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HMCS St Julien was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following...
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September 1914 (arriving at Bermuda on 3 September 1914, aboard HMCS Canada, escorted by HMCS Niobe) to August 1915, when it was replaced by the 38th Battalion...
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