Revisiting the Unknown Soldier: How a grassroots campaign brought a fallen comrade home
Pallbearers of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment carried the casket of Newfoundland's Unknown Soldier up the steps of the National War Memorial in downtown St. John's on July 1. (Mike Moore/CBC)
Monday marks the first Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in St. John's to include the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The remains of the unidentified soldier were removed from a grave at a military cemetery in France, and were repatriated in time for Memorial Day ceremonies on July 1.
Very little is known about the soldier, other than that he served with and was buried among other Newfoundland soldiers in Europe.
Earlier this year, CBC News produced two documentaries about the effort: one that looks at the repatriation of the Unknown Soldier, while the other looked behind the scenes at the years-long campaign to refurbish the memorial in St. John's to celebrate its centennial.
For Remembrance Day, we'd like to present them again.
Someone's Son
Reporter Heather Gillis, collaborating with video producers Chelsea Jacobs and Ted Dillon, followed the team of people who worked to bring the remains of the Unknown Soldier back to Newfoundland.
Enduring Witness
The National War Memorial in downtown St. John's was completed in 1924, to give the then dominion of Newfoundland its own monument to those lost in the Great War. Reporter Terry Roberts teamed up with video producers Danny Arsenault and Ted Dillon to chronicle the history of the landmark, and its refurbishment a century later.
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