10th Battalion (Canadians), CEF
The 10th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force was a unit of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), specifically in the 1st Canadian Division from 1914 to 1919. The battalion participated in every major Canadian battle of the First World War, and set a record for the most decorations earned by a Canadian unit in a single battle at Hill 70. The unit was known to its contemporaries simply as The Fighting Tenth.
Men of the 10th Battalion pass Stonehenge
The Battle of Hill 70 took place in the First World War between the Canadian Corps and five divisions of the German 6th Army. The battle took place along the Western Front on the outskirts of Lens in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France between 15 and 25 August 1917.
Canadian soldiers in a captured German trench
"An Impression of Lens, France, Seen from an Aeroplane- the Anglo-german [sic] Front Line, 1918" (oil on canvas, Richard Carline Art.IWMART2661)
Example of a Vickers gun in action
A ruined house west of Lens, used to shelter water tanks