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Gerry Peddle
- Jan 9, 2022
- 3 min
Newfoundland & Labrador - A Contribution Remembered: Company Sergeant-Major, Cyril Gardner
COMPANY SERGEANT - MAJOR CYRIL GARDNER Company Sergeant-Major Gardner was the only member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment to be...
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Gerry Peddle
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Newfoundland & Labrador - A Contribution Remembered: Barbed Wire & Shrapnel
Barbed Wire & Shrapnel ^^^ Barbed wire from the Western Front and heavy iron shrapnel found near Ovillers-la-Boisselles, (Somme,...
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Gerry Peddle
- Dec 5, 2021
- 3 min
Newfoundland and Labrador: a Contribution Remembered (part 20B)
The Seventh Caribou ^^^ The Final Caribou, installed 100 years later on Caribou Hill, Gallipoli “Those heroes who shed their blood in...
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Gerry Peddle
- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
Newfoundland and Labrador: a Contribution Remembered (part 20A)
The Sixth Caribou ^^^ The Caribou, by (Sculptor) Basil Gotto; " The memorial is that of a large bronze caribou standing on a rocky...
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Gerry Peddle
- Nov 7, 2021
- 3 min
Talbot House - Toc H
An oasis of serenity in a world gone mad ^^^ The Talbot House, otherwise known as Toc H in Poperinge Flanders, is a home away from home,...
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Gerry Peddle
- Oct 31, 2021
- 3 min
Newfoundland and Labrador: a Contribution Remembered (part 19)
Tommy Ricketts ^^^ Private Thomas Ricketts, a Boy Soldier who enlisted at the age of 15, became the youngest soldier in the British Army...
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