Stock Photo Description: This image features a section of the huge WWI memorial built to honour the Canadians who fought and died at Vimy Ridge, France, in 1917.The section is featured against a backdrop of darkly red sky, to symbolise the blood that was shed. The Memorial, unveiled by King Edward VIII in July 1936, consists of two towering pylons and twice life-sized figures built and carved from limestone brought from a quarry in Yugoslavia. It took eleven years to build the memorial and carve the figures in situ. The Memorial's designer was the Canadian sculptor and architect, Walter Seymour Allward. Standing on Hill 145, the highest point of the 14 kilometre-long Vimy Ridge, the imposing Memorial overlooks the battlefield to the west, still pock-marked by countless shell-holes and mine-craters. Carved on the walls of the Memorial are the names of 11,285 Canadians missing in France from the Great War, and who have no known graves.
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Stock Photo of a Section of the Canadian WWI Memorial at Vimy, France
