An unknown Newfoundland soldier, who fought and died on the battlefields in northeastern France during the First World War, is back home this weekend for the first time in more than a hundred years.
With hearses, a plane and a fighter jet escort, a one-of-a-kind repatriation has returned the soldier back to St. John's. He will eventually be entombed at the National War Memorial in the city's downtown.
"It's a moment I'll die with," said Frank Sullivan, a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Command at the Royal Canadian Legion."What can you say when you're bringing a son home?" Newfoundland and Labrador has become the first regional government within the Commonwealth Countries to repatriate an unknown soldier. The event was timed for the hundred anniversary of the opening of the National War Memorial in St. John's.
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