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Kenora Trench


Ian C

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I believe that this trench was in the Thiepval area, does anyone know its exact position or where I can get a map that might show it/

Thanks

Ian C

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Nicholson's history of the CEF has some very detailed maps of the Somme, including Kenora, Regina, Desire etc.:

Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1918

Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War

By Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson, CD

Army Historical Section

Second Printing (corrected) May 1964

Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1964

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Kenora Trench is not exactly on the Thiepval Ridge; it is on a piece of high ground north of Courcelette village and was captured in fighting that later became known as the Battle of Thiepval Ridge (the day Thiepval itself was taken).

It linked into Regina Trench at one point, and became the base for many attacks on this trench, which did not fall until November 1916.

There is quite a lot of information in the fighting there in my book Courcelette in the 'Battleground Europe' series:

http://battlefields1418.50megs.com/books_b...y_paul_reed.htm

Which unit/soldier are you researching who fell there?

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Ian.

This is Kenora Trench as in Sept. 1916...

Dave.

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Paul,

I am researching:

Private Cyril Ralph Hill,

192242 Quebec Regiment,

42nd Battalion,

Canadian Infantry.

Who died from wounds on 9 October 1916 and is buried at Warloy-Baillon.

He is remembered on my local war memorial at Fenny Stratford, Milton Keynes.

Ian C

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