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1998.141.051

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CANADA & CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

CANADA ET FORCE EXPÉDITIONNAIRE CANADIENNE

Montreal Crater at Vimy Ridge (after the battle)

Montreal Crater at Vimy Ridge - A cross is on far left. The photo was taken after the battle. (Note on back: "facing p. 33" in history?). NOTE: There is another different photo of the Montreal Crater facing page 36 of the Regimental History. DND photo o.4484. From the Regimental History,page 48 "Simultaneously with the opening of the barrage the two mines under the Boche right front were exploded, and the 72nd moved forward to the attack, as promptly and with angry violence, in answer to frantic S. O. S. rockets, the German protective barrage came down on No Man's Land and on the trenches which the Battalion had just left, being particularly heavy in the vicinity of Montreal Crater, which was the left centre of the Battalion's front."
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