Hill 70: A Forgotten Battle?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Andy Robertshaw describes the little known Battle of Hill 70 (August 1917), another impressive Canadian success that closely followed the Battle of Vimy Ridge (April 1917). The Victoria Cross citation for Harry Brown, V.C., is read.
This video is part of the "Canada's FWW Battlefields" series.
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Im Canadian and am so proud of successes of the Canadian soldiers in battles most of us have never heard of,Hill 70,Canal du Nord, Cambrai to name a few and also some where the werent exactly successful.I read somewhere that Arthur Currie wrote that he didnt understand why Vimy was so important to Canadians as some battles later were more difficult. Thankyou for the video.
One of my Great Grandfather's war ended at Hill 70. He was wounded by shrapnel during one of the German counter attacks and spent a year and a half in hospital.
My grandfather's as well. He got shot in the neck and gassed, and spent 6 months in the hospital.
@@brennandm There seemed to have been no shortage of severe wounds in that attack
Mr Robertshaws knowledge really is second to none on all things ww1 n 2 I think, hope to meet him on my travels one day across the the western front. I have been 20 times since 2005, we lost ten men in my family in ww1, I have found 5 so far and where they are buried or remembered, three of them brothers, cousins to my paternal granddad . Whenever I pay my respects at Vimy it always takes the wind out of sails snatching my breath away the visitor centre and trenches there are really very good and worth a visit. it really is stunning and I must have read the names over and over many times choked up for the so many lads lost there. I have visited Canada once back in the 1986 where I scattered my late fathers ashes on Niagara falls, he had visited Canada many times, so this is why I feel such an affinity for Vimy memorial I shall be visiting again next month. God rest you lads and thank you .
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My great great grandfather Sargeant Frederick Hobson was killed here.
My grand uncle was killed here. His remains may just have been discovered in one of the mass graves found during construction of the new hospital.
My great-grandfather (Captain St.George Duncan Clarke MC) and my grandmother's uncle (Lieutenant Francis Bassell Winter MC) were at this battle in the 26th New Brunswick Battalion, 5th Regt. 2nd Canadian Division. One of them is still there somewhere and his body never came home.