On the crest of Hill 145,

Walter Allwards Memorial that came to him in a dream

stands forever as testimony to Canada's sacrifice in the Great War.

What can we find here as we explore Vimy Ridge in a day.

It's another of our battlefields in a day podcast where we focus on a particular battlefield of the Great War and we look at what we can see and understand in the course

of a day's visits. And what we do is break that

battlefield up into two parts usually, a morning visit and an afternoon visit, and we'll do that in

this episode. And I did one recently about the battlefields of Arras in northern France, and that's

where we are again this week in northern France, and we're close to the city of Arras. And when I did that podcast at looking at the battlefields around

our ass in a day, I mentioned that in that one we wouldn't feature Vimy Ridge because that was worthy

of its own podcast. And that's where we are today, looking at Vimy in a day.

Now for many people, many Canadians, but not just Canadians,

because I would guess that most British visitors to the Western Front

will go or will have been to Vimy at some point.

For most people, a visit to Vimy Ridge is straight into the Canadian Memorial Park, to the visitor

centre area, to the preserved trenches, and up onto the highest point of the ridge at Hill

144, to see that magnificent Canadian memorial, probably one of the most beautiful, if not the

most impressive memorials on the British part of the Western Front.

But Vimy is a wider battlefield and that's what we're hoping to look at during the course of this podcast.

And breaking it into two, what we'll do in the morning is go from behind the lines up to the front line area.

And if you've listened to this podcast before,

you'll know I like that approach in visiting battlefields. It's important to see the perspective

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