For King & Empire

Norm Christie takes us into the heroic city of Ypres, filled with refugees in 1915, and out onto the killing fields where, German forces initiated the century of “total war”.

Norm Christie takes us through the trenches from which the battle of the Somme was launched on July 1, 1916.

Norm Christie takes us to the immense French and German military cemeteries that reflect the desperate fighting for Notre Dame de Lorette and Vimy Ridges in 1915.

Norm Christie takes us back to the city of Ypres, where the Canadians fought their first big battle in 1915. In 1917, Ypres is a ruin.

Norm takes us onto the Amiens battlefield where Canadian troops spearheaded the attack on August 8, 1918, that became “the black day of the German Army”.

Norm Christie shows us what is left of the Western Front–the cemeteries, monuments and devastated fields rich in bodies, shrapnel, and live shells left by the Great War.