enemy infantry advance. The Canadians attempted counter-attacks, but the Germans exploded four mines underneath the Canadian lines and renewed their attack again on June 6 and captured the remaining high ground, most of Sanctuary Wood and even advanced onto the plain beyond. The newly appointed Commander of the Canadian Corps, Lt-Gen. Sir Julian Byng, was determined to win back the high ground on Mount Sorrel and Hill 62 and gave orders for 1st Canadian Division, under the Command of Major-General Arthur Currie, to plan and execute the counter-attack. Following a vicious three-day artillery bombardment, the Canadian infantry attacked up the slopes in darkness at 1:30 a.m., June 13 and in the ensuing battle re-took the heights lost between the 2nd and 6 June. “The first Canadian deliberately planned attack in any force,” the British Official History was to record, “had resulted in an unqualified success.” However, the cost of the victory was steep; as June 1916 saw the Canadians suffer over 8,400 casualties. The Canadians re-secured their positions and held the critical high ground they had retaken until they were withdrawn from the sector to participate at the Battle of the Somme in August. Monument Site selection At the end of the war, The Imperial War Graves Commission granted Canada eight sites - five in France and three in Belgium - on which to erect memorials. Each site represented a significant Canadian engagement in the war and for this reason it was originally decided that each battlefield would be treated equally and graced with identical monuments. The Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission was formed in November 1920 and decided a competition would be held to select the design of the memorial that would be used at the eight European sites. In October 1922, the submission of Toronto sculptor and designer Walter Seymour Allward was selected as the winner of the competition, and the submission of Frederick Chapman Clemesha placed second. The commission decided Allward's monumental design would be used at Vimy Ridge in France as it was the most dramatic location. Despite a consideration that Alward's monument at Vimy could stand alone as the sole monument to the Canadian efforts in Europe Clemesha's 'Brooding Soldier' design was selected for the remaining seven sites but was later, for a number of reasons, erected only at St. Julien in Belgium. The remaining six memorials, to be built on sites at Hill 62 and