An Ottawa historian has undertaken a mission to give proper burials to more than 40 Canadian soldiers killed at Vimy Ridge. Norm Christie says that on April 9, 1917, a unit of the Canadian Scottish regiment attacked across a field in northern France. During the heat of battle, 44 of the dead were buried in a crater which was marked CA40, including William Milne of Moose Jaw, Sask., a Victoria Cross winner. Christie says the dead — including 10 members of the 113th Battalion Lethbridge Highlanders — were supposed to be exhumed and relocated to a nearby cemetery called Nine Elms, but it never happened.
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