On Sunday 9th April 2017 it will be centenary of the start of The Battle of Arras in France (9th April to 16th May 1917) which was a British Offensive on The Western Front. The Battle cost many lives (160,000 British and 125,000 German casualties and losses). It is also the centenary of the four day Battle of Vimy Ridge where there were 3,598 Canadian deaths.