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How a Cape Breton Farmer Led the Battle for Hill 145 at Vimy

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Percival William Anderson

Story by Phlis McGregor, CBC

When Jim MacDonald makes his pilgrimage to Vimy Ridge on Sunday, he will be guided by a 100-year-old map, which is stained with mud from the First World War battlefield, and now sits carefully folded in archival paper at his Cape Breton home.

The map was carried by a young soldier, Percival William Anderson, as he led his men up Hill 145 on the evening of April 9, 1917. It shows trenches and German strongpoints, with lines and symbols added in Anderson’s own hand.

"I can imagine him with that map from morning to night," says MacDonald, an author and researcher in Baddeck, N.S.

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The 85th Battalion Nova Scotia Highlanders had recently arrived in France. Though combat-trained, they were a labour battalion and not supposed to see battle.
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