ST. PAUL - Members of the St. Paul Royal Canadian Legion Brach 100 and 2395 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps commemorated Canada’s most celebrated military victory of World War I, the April 9 to 12, 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge, with a march to the St. Paul Cenotaph on April 12.
A brief ceremony took place and included the recitation of ‘In Flanders Fields’, a minute of silence honouring the more than 10,600 Canadians killed and injured in the four-day battle - a number that would increase to 11,285 Canadian casualties before the conflict in France against the Germans ended on Nov. 11, 1918.
The ceremony ended with the laying of wreaths and the singing of ‘God Save the King’ before Legion members, cadets and guests returned to the Legion Hall.
