[Candor7]

Currie (MacMhuirich)of Loch Finlaggan, Islay

http://www.clancurrie.com/

Another fine Canadian of Scots heritage.

[tanuki]

Currie and Monash (Australia) were probably the two best Allied generals of the Great War. Currie in particular has been criminally neglected by his country. The Vimy Ridge campaign is a textbook example of an assault on a fortified objective.

[Ciexyz]

Kudos to our Canadian allies.

[Alexander Rubin]

Canadian soldier ping.

[Clive]

It bears repeating. This from another thread: Expect to see more stories of Vimy Ridge We are coming up on the 90th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge (April 9 - 12, 1917). Vimy Ridge was the defining moment that marked the beginning of Canada’s emergence from under the mother country’s shadow and its development as an independent nation. Canadians went to war seeing themselves as primarily British Subjects who happened to be Canadian colonials. They came home perceiving themselves as primarily Canadians, albeit still British Subjects. Canada grew from that point forward into full nationhood "in successive fits of absent-mindedness".

[goldstategop]

This was Canada's version of Gallipoli for the Australians. It marked the country's emergence within the British Empire as an independent country in its own right.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus