Matt Dixon Posted 29 August , 2005 Share Posted 29 August , 2005 Does anyone have the numbers of casualties sustained by the Newfoundlanders on the opening day of the Somme please? Also has anyone ever seen a headstone bearing the inscription "A Newfoundland Officer of the Great War"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmac Posted 29 August , 2005 Share Posted 29 August , 2005 According to Official History: 14 officers and 219 OR killed 12 officers and 374 OR wounded 91 OR missing Total 710 Middlebrook has the totals as 26 officers k&w and 658 OR k&w: 684 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dixon Posted 29 August , 2005 Author Share Posted 29 August , 2005 Thanks a lot, just what I wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 29 August , 2005 Share Posted 29 August , 2005 Norm Christie, in "The Newfoundlanders in the Great War 1916-1918" gives approximately the same figures with the additional info that 801 men took part in the attack. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 29 August , 2005 Share Posted 29 August , 2005 For the most part these men were killed behind their own lines, that happened a lot that day. And, I have mentioned this before, the caribou in the memorials is a female grieving for her lost young . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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