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Pte. Arthur Ernest White Maidment's letters that make up part of this Community Memory refer to many of the recruits from this area. The following pictures and details will give you a better insight to their lives.

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Pte. Arthur Ernest White Maidment
1916
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Pte. Arthur Ernerst White Maidment, service number 2910 of Trinity was born on September 8, 1896 to Enoch Heber and Margaret Maidment. He died on April 14, 1917 at Monchy, France.

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Pte. Frederick Charles Somerton, Service Number 1342.
1915
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Pte. Frederick Charles Somerton was one of four sons from the Somerton family in Trinity to volunteer for the war:

Sgt. Francis Herbert Somerton, service number 1256. Date of birth 1895.
Enlisted: 20 February 1915 Discharged: 15 June 1919

Pte. Frederick Charles Somerton, service number 1342. Date of birth 1888.
Enlisted: 10 April 1915
Killed in Action: 25 November 1915
Buried at sea from H.M.S Guildford Castle

Cpl. Austin Somerton, service number 2428. Date of birth 1899.
Enlisted: 5 April 1916

Pte. Edward F. Somerton, service number 3526. Date of birth 1898.
Enlisted: 9 March 1917

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Army trainees in St. John's, Newfoundland
1915
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Staff Sergeant Major Cecil Green was born on September 6, 1896 in Trinity, Newfoundland to John and Mary Ann (Fowlow) Green. His service number in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was 984 and he received the Meritorious Service Medal for his service to his Country.

Cecil also had a brother, Harvey Green (#2924) and a sister, Elizabeth (Bess) Rixon Carnell Green who served as a nurse in the First World War.

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Touring outside Cairo before embarking from Alexandria for the Gallipoli Peninsula and Suvla Bay.
1915
Cairo, Egypt

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The men in this photograph are Cpl. Whitfield Bannister, William Frank Fowlow, Lance Cpl. Thomas Cook, Staff Sergeant Cecil Green and the tour guide.

Corporal Whitfield Bannister, Royal Newfoundland Regiment was born on October 29, 1896 in Robin Hood, now Port Rexton to Alexander and Sarah Bannister. Cpl. Bannister was a prisoner of war. Colonel G. W. L. Nicholson in The Fighting Newfoundlander writes that the food prisoners were forced to live on did not allow them to engage in heavy physical labour and the tasks that they performed to gain their daily pay of two pfennigs were not arduous. Bannister remembered one of the tasks he had to complete was loading railway cars at the mining town of Denain.

William Frank Fowlow was born on November 23, 1892 in Trinity East to Martin and Amy Ann Fowlow.

Lance Corporal Thomas Cook, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, service number 1141. He was born on July 15, 1895 in Trinity East to John and Mary Hannah (Brown) Cook.

Staff Sergeant Major Cecil Green, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, service number 984. He was born on September 6, 1896 in Trinity to John and Mary Ann (Fowlow) Green.

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Corporal Harvey Green, Service Number 2924, son of John and Mary Anne Green.
1916
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Corporal Harvey Green of Trinity, service number 2924, was born on December 7, 1899 to John and Mary Ann (Fowlow) Green and served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Harvey also had a brother (Cecil) and sister (Elizabeth) who served in the First World War. Cecil served in the Regiment, number 984 and Elizabeth (Bess) in the United States Army Nurse Corps.

Harvey also went on to serve in World War II in the Royal Navy where he was lost at sea in 1942 when his ship was sunk.

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This excerpt was taken from a daily diary that was kept by Mr. William E. McGrath who worked for Ryan Brothers in Trinity, Newfoundland.

"Easter Saturday
22 April 1916

This town profusely decorated with flags and mottos etc. today in honour of the home coming of Private William G. Tibbs who was wounded at the Dardanelles. Private Tibbs was met at the station on arrival of train by a large crowd of citizens part of whom hauled him in a carriage to his home. Music and songs were rendered on the route. All the stores were closed for a time in honour of the event."

(The pictures that follow show the parade mentioned above and the reception that Pte. Tibbs received upon arriving home in Trinity).

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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