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A parade to welcome home William (Bill) George Tibbs.
22 April 1916
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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A parade to welcome home William (Bill) George Tibbs.
22 April 1916
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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A parade to welcome home William (Bill) George Tibbs.
22 April 1916
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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A parade to welcome home William (Bill) George Tibbs.
22 April 1916
Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Pte. Raymond White, 1899-1937
1916
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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The sound excerpt attached is part of a CBC Radio interview with Mrs. Florence (Floss) Grant Barbour. In the interview she talks about cleaning the house and suddenly feeling the urge to play the Dead March in Saul on the piano. Her mother asks her why she is playing it and she said that she did not know why, that she had Raymond on her mind. They both agreed that this was a strange occurance and she wrote the hour and date in the back of the music book.Raymond at that time was her boyfriend and he was away at war. This song was one of his favorite tunes. Later they received news that Raymond had been injured and would be sent home. One evening while sitting in the parlour she asked Raymond if he could remember within an hour or so of when he was injured. He wrote the time on a piece of paper and it matched exactly to the time of day when she was playing the song.

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Raymond White on leave in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
10 February 1917
Windsor, Nova Scotia

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Pte. Raymond M. T. White, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, was born April 18, 1899 to William and Lavinia H (Taylor) White. He died on March 27, 1937 at the age of 37 years.

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Company Sergeant Major Stewart Sheppard Dewling, Service No. 20.
December, 1916

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Company Sergeant Major Stewart Sheppard Dewling, service number 20 was born on May 17, 1895 in Trouty, Newfoundland to John and Christiana (Clifford) Dewling. He died on August 18, 1955 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Stewart was among the First 500 men who volunteered for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.

According to The Fighting Newfoundlander by Colonel G. W. L. Nicholson, Pte's. Stewart Dewling and Thomas McGrath of St. John's and Pte. John Cox of Harbour Breton, who were medical orderlies, were awarded the Military Medal for their conspicuous devotion to duty in bringing the wounded men to safety under heavy shelling and machine-gun fire from No Man's Land in Beaumont Hamel, France, July 1, 1916.

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2nd Lieutenant Cyril Gardner
1916
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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2nd Lieutenant Cyril Gardner was born in British Harbour, Newfoundland on August 15, 1885 to Arthur and Mary Gardner. He was a member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and his service number was 824.

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Lance Corporal Edward (Ned) Gardner
1917
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Lance Corporal Edward James Gardner was born in British Harbour, Newfoundland on September 23, 1891 to Arthur and Mary Gardner. He was a member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, service number 1247. Edward was killed in action on July 1, 1916 at the Battle of the Somme which took place at Beaumont Hamel, France. His body was never found.

Edward also had a brother serve in the Regiment, Cyril Gardner, as well as a sister, Grace who was a Nursing Sister in the Queen Alexandria's International Nursing Service. She was a nurse with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.