Today I'll be commemorating Newfoundland Memorial Day instead of Canada Day. It’s the 110th anniversary of Beaumont-Hamel in the battle of Somme. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment had roughly 800 men sent to the frontline by British command on July 1,1916. Only 68 made roll call the next day.
Newfoundland went into a fuck ton of debt to help the British during the war, and that debt would later be leveraged against us when the British and Canadian governments conspired to sell us into Canadian confederation.
There's a Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland memorial site in France, and pictured here is the War Memorial in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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