Canadian Victory at Courcelette 3 10 min 36 s Topical Film
Company Walking wounded, stretcher cases and prisoners filter
back to the front line dressing stations and are evacuated by
ambulance or on foot. Canadian soldiers watch from a safe
distance as the Germans counter-attack at the sugar factory. As
they are led back the German prisoners are allowed to wash,
Fritz indulges in an unfamiliar exercise, in a nearby pond.
Other Germans are shown dead, some of the Huns who did not get
out of their trench in time. The captured trenches at
Courcelette are a shapeless mass. Inside a field hospital
surgery is performed on serious cases. Canadian dead are buried
in shrouds in a permanent military cemetery after the battle.
Graves and a memorial to the dead of the Canadian forces in the
Baffle of Vimy Ridge, Western Front, summer 1917. The memorial
reads “To the Memory of the Officers, NCOs and Men of the 2nd
Canadian Division and the l3th Infantry Brigade who Fell in the
Capture of Vimy Ridge on April 9th 1917, and