Vimy Ridge

Date: 1883-1960

By: Juriss, Maximilian, 1878-1960

Reference: MS-Papers-1483

Description: Primarily records of World War One service, comprising scrapbooks of correspondence, reports, documents, etc. Served as Captain with British army in France until captured at Vimy Ridge, May 1916; later served with Inter-allied Commission and British Red Cross Society, dealing with Russian prisoners in Germany. Unpublished autobiography, business correspondence, photographs, clippings, Juriss family records. There are many souvenirs of his war service - a collection of medal ribbons, German and Russian prisoner of war currency, tickets, flashes, armbands, labels, a homemade compass and handmade programmes for entertainment etc Other - Remininscenes and annotated scrapbook of letters etc (Folders 1 & 2) were filmed and returned to Mr Juriss in Sep 1988 Quantity: 11 folder(s). 0.13 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 20 November 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Orders and decorations. Collection of medal riboons and World War One relics.

Date: 1936

By: J R Gaunt & Son Ltd

Reference: Curios-004-031

Description: Medal shows the words "Vimy Pilgrimage" around the top rim, above an image of the stone Canadian National Vimy War Memorial and a lower border of poppies. The bar shows the words "Canadian Legion 1935, and a beaver and maple leaf. Canadian troops were victorious in the battle of Vimy Ridge, west of Vimy, France, on 9-12 April 1917. The Canadian War Memorial at Vimy was opened on 1936, before a crowd of 50,000, addressed by King Edward VIII. Quantity: 2 curio(s). Physical Description: Pewter medal, diameter 32 mm, suspended from bar 23 x 37 mm, by blue and yellow ribbon, total height 95 mm. Provenance: Previously belonging to Maximilian Juriss.

Date: 1922

By: Thomas Cook Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-France-1922-01

Description: A guide to tours of the World War I battlefields of Northern France, with maps, photographs and textual descriptions of the sites at Compiegne & Pierrefonds (where the armistice was signed), Vimy Ridge & the Hindenburg Line, The Somme (Delville, Bapaume, Albert), the Marne (Chateau-Thierry, Rheims, Soissons), Chemins des Dames, Berry-au-Bac, Craonne, Champagne, Argonne Forest, Verdun Forts, St-Mihiel Salient, Flanders front, as well as descriptions of the tours available around Paris itself. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 49 pages, each 210 x 134 mm.