– snow
One of our balloons is set on fire by a disguised enemy ‘plane. Our airmen go over & send two of his down in retaliation.
Our troops take Vimy so it is reported.
Snow is falling.
*The capture of Vimy was more than just an important battlefield victory. For the first time all four Canadian divisions attacked together: men from all regions of Canada were present at the battle. Brigadier-General A.E. Ross declared after the war, “in those few minutes I witnessed the birth of a nation.”
Vimy became a symbol for the sacrifice of the young Dominion. In 1922, the French government ceded to Canada in perpetuity Vimy Ridge, and the land surrounding it. The gleaming white marble and haunting sculptures of the Vimy Memorial, unveiled in 1936, stand as a terrible and poignant reminder of the 11,285 Canadian soldiers killed in France who have no known graves.
(http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/vimy/index_e.shtml)
