Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Moose Jaw remembers Vimy

Local legion holds Vimy Ridge memorial service to commemorate the battle’s centennial

Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald

George Wood reflects on his father, Stanley Wood, 

while gazing on his father’s medals for his service on the

front in the First World War at the Royal Canadian

Legion in Moose Jaw after the Vimy Ridge Memorial

service to commemorate the battle’s centennial.

By Lisa Goudy

The Royal Canadian Legion Moose Jaw branch held a memorial service to commemorate the centennial since the beginning of the Battle of Vimy Ridge that lasted for three days.

As president of the Moose Jaw legion, it was Roy LaBuick’s hope that people would walk away with a renewed understanding of the “sacrifice that was made.”

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