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Son of Thomas and Alice Trask, of Elliston, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.
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Heber Trask, Pte.
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Caribou Hat Badge of Royal Newfoundland Regiment
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Memorial Scroll dedicated to Heber Trask.
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Letter honouring those who served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
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Monument found in Bonavista commemorating Heber Trask.
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Son of Thomas and Alice Trask, of Elliston, Trinity Bay.
Military Medal
London Gazette, June 17th 1919 - Ledeghem.
Daily Orders, 1st Battalion 9/11/1918.
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On the morning of 14th October
1918, during the advance from Ledeghem towards the Lys, almost before the
barrage had lifted, these two men dashed forward at a pill-box. A few of the
enemy were leaving the pill-box and as soon as they say Ptes. Trask and
O'Brien threw bombs at them, but these two men rushed in and bayoneted three
of the enemy. They then went to the pill-box and threw a bomb into it, then
entered it and captured an Officer, 35 Men and two machine guns. It was
entirely due to the prompt action and dash of these two men that the enemy were
prevented from bringing their machine guns into action and causing heavy
casualties.
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Heber Trask, Pte.
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Caribou Hat Badge of Royal Newfoundland Regiment
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Memorial Scroll dedicated to Heber Trask.
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Letter honouring those who served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
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Monument found in Bonavista commemorating Heber Trask.
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A closer view of the monument in Bonavista where Heber Trask is commemorated.
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Son of Thomas and Alice Trask, of Elliston, Trinity Bay. Military Medal London Gazette, June 17th 1919 - Ledeghem. Daily Orders, 1st Battalion 9/11/1918. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On the morning of 14th October 1918, during the advance from Ledeghem towards the Lys, almost before the barrage had lifted, these two men dashed forward at a pill-box. A few of the enemy were leaving the pill-box and as soon as they say Ptes. Trask and O'Brien threw bombs at them, but these two men rushed in and bayoneted three of the enemy. They then went to the pill-box and threw a bomb into it, then entered it and captured an Officer, 35 Men and two machine guns. It was entirely due to the prompt action and dash of these two men that the enemy were prevented from bringing their machine guns into action and causing heavy casualties.
BEAUMONT-HAMEL (NEWFOUNDLAND) MEMORIAL Somme, France
The largest of the battlefield parks established in memory of Newfoundlanders who fell in the First World War is Beaumont Hamel, nine kilometres directly north of the town of Albert.
In BEAUMONT HAMEL MEMORIAL PARK, which was officially opened by Earl Haig on June 7, 1925, the monument of the great bronze caribou, emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, stands on the highest point overlooking St John's Road and the slopes beyond. At the base of the statue three tablets of bronze carry the names of over 800 members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, and the Mercantile Marine who gave their lives in the First World War and have no known grave. In the lodge, which houses the reception room for visitors to the Park, a bronze plaque, unveiled in 1961 by the Hon. Joseph Smallwood, Premier of Newfoundland, lists the Battle Honours won by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and pays tribute to its fallen.
The park is one of the few in France or Belgium where the visitor can see a Great War battlefield much as it was. The actual trenches are still there and something of the terrible problem of advancing over such country can be appreciated by the visitor.
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, no unit suffered heavier losses than the Newfoundland Regiment, which had gone into action 801 strong. When the roll call of the unwounded was taken next day, only 68 answered their names. The final figures that revealed the virtual annihilation of the Battalion gave a grim count of 233 killed or dead of wounds, 386 wounded, and 91 missing. Every officer who went forward in the Newfoundland attack was either killed or wounded.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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