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Default 1st RNFLD Regt....*
"The Guard" of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force at Berneville, 9 May 1917. Photograph taken after the Regiment retirement from Monchy-le-Preux.


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Captain James W. Tocher MC (middle) and his RAMC party, attached to the 1st Newfoundland Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Photograph taken at Berneville after the Regiment's retirement from Monchy-le-Preux.

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Officers and men of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force, all of whom received decorations for holding alone the village of Monchy-le-Preux against the heavy counter attack of a Bavarian Division on 13 April 1917. For names see Regimental History, p.76. Berneville, 9 May 1917.

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Senior officers of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force: Lieutenant Colonel A. L. Hadow CMG, the Commanding Officer of the Regiment (left), and Lieutenant Colonel J. Forbes-Robertson DSO MC, second in command (right). Berneville, 9 May 1917.

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* I know...technically should be in the British section.......
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