Showing posts with label Newfoundland Regiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newfoundland Regiment. Show all posts
Monday, 1 July 2019

BEAUMONT HAMEL, SOMME

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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 Gover...
Saturday, 22 June 2019

"GLORIOUS SURVIVORS"

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While never forgetting those who died, in the next few days we will remember those who fought and survived the horrors of World War I.  Pa...
Friday, 14 June 2019

WHAT THEY SAID

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I think you all know that St Patrick's Convent School, Deanery Avenue, which  opened in 1921, was built as a Memorial to those of the p...
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Tuesday, 6 November 2018

A YOUNG " BLUE PUTTEE"

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I trust I am not overdoing it with the military posts here?  This is the third such post.  (As my late mother-in-law would probably say ...
Friday, 1 July 2016

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY

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Distance Marker on Monument at Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel Pte E J Murphy During WWI, the Newfoundland Regiment serv...
Tuesday, 30 June 2015

WWI AND ST PATRICK’S CONVENT SCHOOL

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The First St Patrick’s Convent School was opened in 1856 and it served the educational requirements of the parish extremely well.   However...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

MEMORIAL DAY IN NEWFOUNDLAND

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 THE FIGHTING NEWFOUNDLANDER At Beaumont Hamel on 1 st July 1916 the Newfoundland Regiment was all but annihilated as they bravely we...
Friday, 11 November 2011

LEST WE FORGET

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In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice was signed, officially ending WWI.   Thousands of you...