![]() That Armageddon of destruction, where industrialized fighting from 1914 to 1918 caused over nine million soldiers’ deaths in battle, more than 21 million more wounded, and destroyed empires, continues to cast a long shadow.įor Canada, a country of not yet eight million, more than 620,000 men served in uniform, alongside 3,000 nurses. The poppy emerged as a symbol from the killing fields of the Western Front during the First World War. George Metcalf Archival Collection / Canadian War Museum ![]() ![]() A Canadian soldier tends to the makeshift grave of a comrade killed near Vimy Ridge in 1917. ![]()
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