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Team work
21 October 2004
Dominion Cemetery, Arras, France

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In October 2004, students from Smiths Falls Collegiate traveled to Europe to locate the gravesites of the soldiers whose names are found on the Smiths Falls cenotaph.

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Commonwealth War Graves Caberet Rouge Cemetery
9 November 1917
Arras, France

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Students went into cemeteries such as Caberet Rouge, home of the Canada's unknown soldier who is now buried in Ottawa at Canada's National War Memorial at the intersection of Elgin and Wellington Street.

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Charles L. Edmunds
22 September 1914
Smiths Falls, Ontario

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Charles L. Edmunds was from Smiths Falls. He is the first soldier from Smiths Falls to be killed in action. Edmunds dies on April 22, 1915 during the first gas attack used in the history of warfare. Charles L. Edmunds body was never found. His name is commemorated at Menin Gate in Ieper, Belgium.

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Mouse Trap Farm
24 April 1915
Ieper, Belgium

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Mouse Trap Farm was the fields where the many of 2nd battalion soldiers from Smiths Falls saw their first combat and died here. Five soldiers from Smiths Falls, who died here, are commemorated on the walls at Menin Gate 10 kilometers away in Ieper, Belgium.

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Charles L. Edmunds' name
22 April 1915
Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper Belgium

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Charles L. Edmunds name on one of the walls at Menin Gate.

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Menin Gate Monument
19 October 2004
Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper Belgium

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Menin Gate memorial where 55,000 names of soldiers whose bodies were never found. They are commemorated on the walls.

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Entire research group from Smiths Falls at Menin Gate ceremony
18 October 2004
Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper Belgium

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While the students from Smiths Falls were in Europe they took part in the Menin Gate ceremony which takes place at 8:00pm every night since 1928.