Memorial Day ceremonies are planned throughout the province tomorrow.
On entering Confederation with Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador had to make the shift to try to balance Canada Day celebrations with the profound loss of young lives during the Battle of Beaumont Hamel in WWI.
St. John’s Deputy Mayor Sheilagh O’Leary says Memorial Day is an important occasion in this province.
The Royal Canadian Legion Newfoundland and Labrador Command will begin its parade from the Sergeant’s Memorial on Queen’s Road at 9:50 a.m. with the annual ceremony at the National War Memorial on Duckworth Street at 10:45.
Woody French of CBS says Memorial Day is never far from people’s thoughts, even today.
He cites the formal burial today of the remains of 17-year-old Private John Lambert of St. John’s in Belgium as another reminder of the loss suffered by the Dominion of Newfoundland in WWI.
A wreath-laying ceremony is scheduled at the Monument of Honour in CBS tomorrow with a solemn mess dinner this evening.