Margaret E Macculloch & David J Hall Family History Research - Harold Hayes’ Canadian Forces Map of Vimy Ridge, given to him prior to his Battalion’s assault of April 1917.On the back of the map Harold has diagrammed different sizes of enemy tranches, along with instructions on how, as an engineer, he should deal with them: from a single Mills bomb for the smallest to flooding with water for the largest.(By kind permission of D Lovell)
Margaret E Macculloch & David J Hall Family History Research
Welcome 7to our Family History Research;
30+ years in the making and still ongoing. We have numerous family members whose history we cannot at present complete, but who we suspect are additional family members to those who lost their lives in the service of their country during World War I and II, and are commemorated on our Frontpage
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Harold Hayes’ Canadian Forces Map of Vimy Ridge, given to him prior to his Battalion’s assault of April 1917. On the back of the map Harold has diagrammed different sizes of enemy tranches, along with instructions on how, as an engineer, he should deal with them: from a single Mills bomb for the smallest to flooding with water for the largest.