Newfoundland’s Unknown Soldier - July 1st here is not like the rest of Canada

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Most Newfoundlanders celebrate Canada Day on July 1st every year in one way or another. But we also recognize one of the darkest days in Newfoundland's history, July 1st 1916, when so many of the young men (and boys) were sent over the top into a buzzsaw like cannon fodder. On this day the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was nearly wiped out.

This year, at the war memorial on Duckworth St. in downtown St. John's, where the finishing touches are currently taking place on a reconstruction project, a tomb for the Unknown Soldier will be unveiled.

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