Memorials Overseas

A handful of gallant Newfoundlanders held off massive German counter-attacks on April 14, 1917.

The Newfoundland Regiment, with General Byng’s Third Army, attacked the Hindenburg Line in front of Cambrai.

The Canadians played a major role in the Battle of the Somme from September 3 to November 18, 1916 at the cost of 24,029 casualties.

Vimy Ridge, in German hands since October 1914, was a key to the German defence system. On April 10, 1917, Vimy Ridge was captured by the Canadian Corps. It marked the only significant success of the Allied spring offensive of 1917, and it was the greatest Allied victory up to that time.

St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France.

Located at Point 67 on Verrières Ridge, South of Caen.

On September 27, 1918, the Canadian Corps crossed Canal du Nord and captured Cambrai, Denain, Valenciennes and Mons.

The Canadians suffered more than 9,000 casualties from April to August 1916 in the Battles of the Ypres Salient before joining the Battle of the Somme.

18,000 Canadians withstood the first German gas attacks during the Second Battle of Ypres, April 22-24, 1915, at the cost of 2,000 lives.

On August 8, 1918, 100,000 soldiers of the Canadian Corps attacked between Hourges and Villers-Bretonneux and drove the enemy eastward for 8 miles.

At the village of Gueudecourt on October 12, 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment made its heroic assault during the Battle of Le Transloy, one of the major battles of the Somme. The Regiment had been one of the few units on the whole of the Fourth Army’s front to capture and retain an objective.

In assaulting and capturing both the Fresnes-Rouvroy and Drocourt-Quéant lines, the Canadian Corps penetrates more than eight kilometers between September 1 and 3, 1918.

On November 4, 1918, units of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division assault the mining town of Vicq, a strong point proving difficult to crack. They manage a footing, only to be driven off by incessant German machine-gun and artillery fire.

The battle took place in the northern area of France on 26-31 August, 1918.

On November 1-2, 1918, the Canadian Corps captures roughly 1,800 enemy soldiers and more than 800 enemy dead are counted in the battle area. Canadian losses number 80 killed and some 300 wounded.

The men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment were remarkable in their achievements during the Battle of Courtrai in October 1918.

On July 1st, 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, the Newfoundland Regiment fought its first engagement in France, its costliest of the whole war.

100,000 soldiers of the Canadian Corps attacked Arras on August 26, 1918. They broke and turned the main German position on the Western Front and reached Canal du Nord.

The monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers who played a part in the liberation of Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse on June 7-9, 1944.

Located within Halifax (Fort Massey) Cemetery, the memorial commemorates two servicemen who were killed in the 1917 explosion but whose bodies were not found.

This Memorial stands in St. John’s main street with the famous old harbour as its backdrop. It commemorates all of Newfoundland’s wartime achievements on land and sea.

The Korea Veterans Association of Canada erected a Wall of Remembrance to the 516 Canadians who are commemorated in the Korean War Book of Remembrance.