Canada comes of age
On Sunday, June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian town of Sarajevo, nineteen-year old student Gavrilo Princip fired the shots which killed the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie. No one could have foreseen that this act would unleash upon the world the devastation of the First World War - the Great War, as it came to be known. No one could have foreseen the events which, by war's end in 1918, wiped ancient empires and kingdoms from the map, overturned social systems and saw political and military power shift from Europe to the United States of America. Certainly no one could have foreseen the death of more than 8 1/2 million men on the bloody battlefields of the war, nor the wounding of 20 million others and the wholesale destruction which ravaged cities and their civilian populations as the war progressed.
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Vimy Ridge soldiers Preparing for battle
The Attack takes place
Follow up and fall out of the battle
Lest we forget
Lest we forget
