Pictures from trip to Vimy Ridge 2001. 

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Canadian Cemetery No.2 This cemetery lies within the Canadian Memorial Park area at Vimy Ridge.

 

Around 3,000 soldiers are buried here.  Two thirds are British and the rest Canadian.

 

Over 2,000 of the graves here are of unknown names. 

 

Canadian Cemetery No.2 was created after the capture of Vimy Ridge, part of the Battle of Arras which commenced on April 9th 1917.

 

Looking North from across the road of Maison Blance German cemetery towards La Targette.