The remains of a soldier from Newfoundland killed in the battlefields of France during the First World War will be laid to rest in St. John's on Monday.
WATCH : After lying for more than 100 years in a cemetery in France, the remains of an unknown soldier who fought in the First World War were brought home to St. John's, N.L., on Saturday. The French government transferred the remains to Canada during a repatriation ceremony at the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, which honours Newfoundland ers who fought in the Battle of the Somme – May 26, 2024will be laid to rest in St.
His grandfather, Pte. Stephen Lawrence, was among the 800 members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment who charged over the top of the trenches, armed with only rifles and bayonets, toward the Germans’ machine-gun fire at Beaumont-Hamel on the morning of July 1, 1916.More than 700 men were killed or wounded as the frontal assault became a slaughter that nearly wiped out the regiment.
“There were soldiers from all over the province that came and joined up for the war effort in the First World War,” Lawrence said. “When we lost so many soldiers in the First World War, it affected every community.” “I think because this place is so small, and the ties between everybody are so tight,” Crummey said in an interview.
“In a way, I think July 1, the marking of what happened at Beaumont-Hamel, is a way of memorializing Newfoundland’s lost nationhood,” he said, adding: “It’s impossible to separate those strands — our sense of Newfoundland disappearing as a nation, and becoming something different, from what happened at Beaumont-Hamel.”
They were able to argue that the Unknown Soldier brought from Vimy Ridge, in France, to the National War Memorial in Ottawa in 2000 didn’t quite capture Newfoundland’s First World War experience, since Newfoundland was not a part of Canada then.The soldier’s tomb will represent deceased Newfoundlanders and Labradorians from all branches of service who have no known grave, and thus the soldier’s identity will not be investigated.
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