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Digital gallery of Private Arden Daiken
Digital gallery of
Private Arden Daiken
Today the 1914-1918 war memorial plaque for Massey Harris Company is located on the outside of their former head office at King Street West, Toronto, Ontario. Pte. Arden Daiken's name was included on the list of men employed at the Verity Plow Co. Ltd., Brantford, Ontario. An article about Pte. Arden Daiken and his twin brother Pte. Arthur Daiken, 772557, appeared in the Brantford Expositor on April 9th, 2007. The article entitled "Remembering Vimy Ridge / Twin brothers from Brantford met mixed fate 90 years ago" was written by Vincent Ball. The article includes information from a letter sent home by Pte. Arthur Daiken after this battle where he wrote about how he was wounded. Shortly afterwards his brother Arden was reported missing at the same battle. The brothers had initially joined the 125th Battalion in Brantford.
Digital gallery of
Private Arden Daiken
This picture of Arden Daiken was taken just after shipping overseas, in London, England.
Digital gallery of
Private Arden Daiken
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 63 of 1140.
Digital gallery of
Private Arden Daiken
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private Arden Daiken
From the Brantford Expositor 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Arden Daiken
From the Brantford Expositor 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Arden Daiken
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Today the 1914-1918 war memorial plaque for Massey Harris Company is located on the outside of their former head office at King Street West, Toronto, Ontario. Pte. Arden Daiken's name was included on the list of men employed at the Verity Plow Co. Ltd., Brantford, Ontario. An article about Pte. Arden Daiken and his twin brother Pte. Arthur Daiken, 772557, appeared in the Brantford Expositor on April 9th, 2007. The article entitled "Remembering Vimy Ridge / Twin brothers from Brantford met mixed fate 90 years ago" was written by Vincent Ball. The article includes information from a letter sent home by Pte. Arthur Daiken after this battle where he wrote about how he was wounded. Shortly afterwards his brother Arden was reported missing at the same battle. The brothers had initially joined the 125th Battalion in Brantford.
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This picture of Arden Daiken was taken just after shipping overseas, in London, England.
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Dack to Dabate. Microform Sequence 26; Volume Number 31829_B016735. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 170. Page 63 of 1140.
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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From the Brantford Expositor 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Brantford Expositor 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 224 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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