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Valenciennes Marne River Marne Reims Mons Champagne Chalons-en PHOTO CREDITS: Maps: Jamie McLennan/Character Creative 000664; DND/LAC/PA-000839; CWM/LAC/C-033185 LAC/ICON55993; William I. Castle/DND/LAC/PA- War Museums/Q 64; Imperial War Museums/Q 754; CWM/19790262-033; CWM/19710261-0142; Imperial Canadian Centre for the Great War/2015.02.20.00001; archives; timeline: The Rooms/VA 37-15.2; Beaumont-Hamel in France and Louvencourt near trenches at Englebelmer The regiment deploys in April-May 1916 the WesternFront Regiment moves to The Newfoundland 1916 March the French army at Verdun Germany attacks the defences of 1916 Feb. 21, the Somme including plans for the Battle of strategy for the upcoming year, and Russia—co-ordinate their countries—France, Britain, Italy at Chantilly, France, the allied At the 2nd Inter-Allied Conference 1915 6, Dec. fatality of the war in Gallipoli, the regiment’s first by enemy fire in a support trench Private Hugh McWhirter is killed the strategic Gallipoli peninsula months in the failed attack on British 29th Division for three The regiment deploys with the 1915 September Malta, Greece and Egypt expanded to 1,000 men, sails to The Newfoundland Regiment, 1915 August Aldershot and then in Scotland to sail for England for training at are equipped, trained and ready known as the First Five Hundred— 537 Newfoundland soldiers— 1914 4, Oct. at war meaning Newfoundland is also Britain declares war on Germany, 1914 Aug. 4, dominion of the Newfoundland becomes a 1907 colony of the British Empire Newfoundland becomes a crown 1854 regiment is founded Newfoundland’s first military 1795 granted by Queen Elizabeth I under a mercantile charter Cuper’s Cove near St. John’s starts a proprietary colony at The Newfoundland Company 1610 seasonal camps in Newfoundland English fishermen establish 1500s Sept. 22, 1915 22, Sept.

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TIMELINE suffered huge losses of Britain’s 29th Division have The 86th and 87th brigades Beaumont-Hamel strongholdof west an important German Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, 1, to 2 a.m., July 14-17, 1916 ammunition away from Verdun drawing German reserves and the , succeeds in the Somme Offensive, known as casualties, the first two weeks of Despite 107,070 British and French July 1-13, 1916 make up the Numerous individual July 1-Nov. 1916 18, wiped out horizon, most of the regiment is on the enemy. Silhouetted on the Newfoundland Regiment moves 1 July a.m., 8:45 Th e battlefield goes quiet. 1 July 8 a.m., Somme River armies on both sides of France’s French forces against German the offensive by British and Start of the Battle of the Somme, July 1916 1, hour, zero a.m., 7:30 in a tunnel under the explosives are detonated 18,000 kilograms of July 1916 1, a.m., 7:20 Somme offensive signals the beginning of the positions at Beaumont-Hamel bombardment of German An hour-long artillery 6 a.m., dubbed St. John’s Road metres to its designated trench, The regiment marches 12 kilo - June 30 p.m., 9:15 postponed that day the order is trench position, but later to move to a forward The regiment is ordered June 1916 28, the Battle of the Somme waiting for the start of in the rain and mud, The regiment trains June 1916 July 1916 1, Sept. 15, 1916 15, Sept. 14- July Delville Wood Battle of Battle of Fromelles July 19-20, 1916

the Somme German trench at Pozières Ridge a half-kilometre section of by Field Marshal Earl Haig site is officially opened Newfoundland Memorial The Beaumont-Hamel June 7, 1925 Regiment by George V renamed the Royal Newfoundland Newfoundland Regiment is Nov. 1917 28, Nov. 13-18, 1916 Battle of the Ancre Heights 1-Nov. Oct. 1916 11, Battle of Transloy Ridges 1-18, Oct. 1916 Battle of Thiepval Ridge 1916 26-28, Sept. 1916 25-28, Sept. one of few Allied victories on troops capture Courcelette, barrage help Canadian infantry Six tanks and a creeping artillery 1916 15, Sept. Battle of Flers-Courcelette 1916 15-22, Sept. 9, 1916 Sept. Canada’s 2nd Battalion captures 9, 1916 Sept. Battle of 1916 3-6, Sept. arriving at the Somme battlefield positions near Ypres, begin Canadian troops, moved from 1916 September Battle of Pozières Ridge July 23-Aug. 7, 1916 October 14, 1918 a private fighting with the 17-year-oldRicketts, Thomas Royal Newfoundland Regiment in Belgium, is instrumental in the is instrumental in the capture of four field guns, four machine guns and eight guns and eight prisoners. His prisoners. His on January 19, 1919 Cross the Victoria action earns him

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