A special ceremony was held today in Holyrood to honour a WWI veteran whose grave had fallen into disrepair.

Thomas Dwyer was training to be a medical doctor when he answered the call.

President of the Holyrood Heritage Society, Linda Fraser, says the carnage he witnessed proved too much.

She says when he returned after the war, he started a medical practice in Grand Falls, but struggled to cope. His family, recognizing the difficulties he was facing, brought him home to Holyrood, where he started another practice, but he was eventually hospitalized and died at the age of 40.

Fraser says he left no descendants and his grave fell into severe disrepair. That’s where members of the Canadian Veteran Freedom Riders and the Royal Newfoundland Regiment stepped in to mend the gravesite on Kennedy’s Road.

The ceremony took place earlier today.