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| Cap with original Badge, in Museum in Ypres |
Sir Douglas Haig, Lieutenant General in command of the Corps, wrote a letter to the Government of Newfoundland expressing his appreciation of the Regiment's splendid courage and determination on 1st July 1916. Here is part of what he wrote.
"That Battalion covered itself with glory on July 1st by the magnificent way in which it carried out the attack entrusted to it. It went forward to the attack when two other attacks on that same part of the line had failed, and by its behaviour on that occasion it showed itself worthy of the highest traditions of the British Race, and proved itself to be a fit representative of the population of the oldest British Colony. When the order to attack was given every man moved forward to his appointed objective in his appointed place as if on parade. There were no waverers, no stragglers, and not a man looked back. It was a magnificent display of trained and disciplined valour, and its assault only failed of success because dead men can advance no farther."
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| "Better than the Best" |
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