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Rena Maude McLean

"This trip more than half our patients are amputation cases and would make you heartsick only they are so cheerful and happy themselves."

Agar Stewart Allan Masteron Adamson

He had a natural gift for command, and an innate respect for his men.

Okill Massey Learmonth

“He caught enemy bombs and threw them back. When he could no longer fight because of his wounds, he continued to instruct his junior officers.”

Jean Brillant

He saw a machine-gun holding up his company’s left flank; he rushed and captured it himself and killed two machine-gunners.

Joseph Kaeble

Decorated with the Military Medal, he was also first French Canadian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest British distinction.

George Burdon McKean

Perhaps because of his size, and his aptitude, McKean was often assigned to scouting duties, creeping across no man’s land and reporting on the enemy.

Francis Thomas Lind

He became a symbol in Newfoundland of the soldier who could face discomfort and sacrifice with good humour.

Owen William Steele

“We are all very particular here that we should not be classed as Canadians. We are much prouder of our distinctiveness as Newfoundlanders.”

Talbot Mercer Papineau

His remarkable letters from the front are the Canadian voice of World War I, a reminder of all that was lost there.

Hedley John Goodyear

In his M.A. thesis, “Newfoundland and its political and commercial relation to Canada,” he argued that its future lay in a confederation with Canada.