Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
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Location
Region : Arras, Pas de Calais, France
Latitude : 50.37940
Lontitude : 2.77379
CWGC Link : 87900
The Vimy Memorial overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted.

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Dungannon Casualties
No     Rank Name Service No Regiment / Service Date Of Death Grave Ref
1 Portrait Portrait Pte. Abbott, Vivan H C 646187 Canadian Infantry 21/08/1917 No Ref
2 Portrait Portrait Pte. Carson, Andrew James 400738 Canadian Infantry 21/11/1916 No Ref
3 Portrait Portrait Pte. Conlon, Benjamin 405610 Canadian Infantry 22/09/1916 No Ref.
4 Portrait Portrait Pte. Givan, Mervyn Ross 14536 Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) 24/05/1915 No Ref.
5 Portrait Portrait Pte. Hogg, William 875269 Canadian Infantry 28/04/1917 No Ref.
6 Portrait Pte. Jones, James Robert 925805 Canadian Infantry 16/08/1917 No Ref.
7 Portrait Portrait L/Corp MacLurg, William 475368 Canadian Light Infantry (Princess Patricia) 15/09/1916 No Ref
8 Portrait Portrait Corp McCombe, John Robert 53364 Canadian Infantry 15/09/1916 No Ref.
9 Portrait Pte. Millar, James 160444 Canadian Infantry 03/05/1917 No Ref.
10 Portrait Pte. Ramsay, John 116058 Canadian Infantry 21/08/1917 No Ref.
11 Portrait Pte. Scott, Robert Henry 74281 Canadian Infantry 15/09/1916 No Ref.
Cemetery History
On the opening day of the Battle of Arras, 9 April 1917, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps, fighting side by side for the first time, scored a huge tactical victory in the capture of the 60 metre high Vimy Ridge.
After the war, the highest point of the ridge was chosen as the site of the great memorial to all Canadians who served their country in battle during the First World War, and particularly to the 60,000 who gave their lives in France.
It also bears the names of 11,000 Canadian servicemen who died in France - many of them in the fight for Vimy Ridge - who have no known grave.
The memorial was designed by W.S. Allward. It was unveiled by King Edward VIII on 26 July 1936.