48th Highlanders Vimy Cross – On the Vimy Ridge battlefield – 1917

The cross erected by the 15th Battalion following the Capture of Vimy Ridge. On 11 April 1917, 23 Highlanders were killed and their bodies place in a temporary cemetery, “Grave CA 35, Neuville St. Vast, 1000 yards west of Nine Elms Cemetery”. The Vimy Cross with the regiment’s distinctive Celtic circle was erected that night […]