No Man's Land

(Canadian pioneers carrying trench mats with wounded and prisoners in background. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Mud and barbed wire through which the Canadians advanced. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Taking cover from high explosive. Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Battered German trench on Vimy Ridge captured by Canadians. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(First World War, 1914-1918, Souchez. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Canadians on guard over German dug-outs waiting for the enemy to surrender. Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Canadian advanced reserves digging a trench under shellfire at Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Canadian machine gunners dug in shell holes in Vimy advance. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Canadian machine gunners dig themselves in in shell holes at Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Canadian finds that a Boche shell has disarranged his home. Library and Archives Canada.)

(German position before Bellecourt after a Beschießung [bombing]. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Canadians consolidating their positions on Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(A Canadian Battalion going over the top. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Barbed wire being destroyed by trench mortars in No Man's Land. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Soldiers advance across No Man's Land. Lest We Forget. Canadian War Museum.)

(Canadians advancing through German entanglements at Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Smashing barbed wire with trench mortar shells. Library and Archives Canada.)

(A tank advancing with Infantry at Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(29^th Infantry Battalion advancing over No Man's Land through the German barbed wire and heavy fire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Shrapnel bursting over our troops as they dig themselves in at Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Treating a wounded German on the battlefield at Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Big German shell exploding. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(No Man's Land in front of Canadian lines. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Montreal Crater, Vimy Ridge. Veterans Affairs Canada.)

(Barbed wire on the Western front. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Canadians advancing over the crest of Vimy Ridge. April 1917. Library and Archives Canada.)

(View looking back from front line trenches. Library and Archives Canada.)

(Barrage on German lines can be seen in the distance. Library and Archives Canada.)

"...this ribbon or belt of absolute stealth, day and night, week after week, month after month, year after year, never changing. This band of deadly stealth in which no man moved or spoke loudly..."– Lieutenant Greg Clark, 4^th Canadian Mounted Rifles.(Landscape and mine craters. Library and Archives Canada.)