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The delegation arrived in France last night, after travelling from St. John's Newfoundland on a Canadian Forces Airbus. This morning, in a different time zone, they awoke to a mixture of sunshine and clouds, on the first day of a short but meaningful pilgrimage to commemorate the role of Newfoundlanders in the First World War. [more]
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Veterans Affairs Canada is mandated to keep the memory of the achievements and sacrifices of the men and women who served for Canada alive. One of the ways the Department fulfils this commemorative mandate is by organizing pilgrimages to former battlefield sites to mark milestone anniversaires. [more]
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On July 1, in broad daylight, one hundred thousand men climbed out of their trenches and advanced shoulder to shoulder across the crater-torn waste of No Man's Land. At Beaumont Hamel, the Newfoundland Regiment was virtually annihilated. In less than half an hour, as they advanced into point-blank fire, the Islanders were cut down. Of the 801 men who went into the battle only sixty-eight unwounded men answered the roll call the next day. [more]
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