Beaumont Hamel

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    Where Newfoundland Remembers

    September 14, 2011 by Sharon Adams
    There is no living memory of what happened July 1, 1916, on the Beaumont Hamel battlefield in France, the day 801 members of the Newfoundland Regiment walked into a hailstorm of machine-gun bullets. History books record the facts and figures—it took only half an hour...
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    Slaughter On The Somme

    July 1, 2011 by John Boileau
    On July 1, 1916, a largely volunteer British army attacked a well-trained and well-entrenched German force. It was the blackest day in British military history. By its end, more casualties had been suffered than any day before or since—a shocking 30,000 in the first hour,...
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    Newfoundland And Labrador Command 61st Convention

    November 25, 2009 by Tom MacGregor
    New Branch Welcomed In Newfoundland A new branch and, for the first time in a long time, an increase in membership gave delegates at the 61st Newfoundland and Labrador Command convention an extra spring in their step when they met at Pleasantville Branch in St....