[Public-List] Royal Newfoundland Regiment

[Jock McClees]

I am intriqued by the posts about the RNR. They also seem to start abruptly. 
Did I miss something? The earliest post I can find is the one at the bottom 
of this email.
Thanks,
Jock McClees

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Milley" <milleype at kingston.net>
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] Royal Newfoundland Regiment


> Marianne/Gord,
> I too just discovered that the Royal Newfoundland Regiment had fought at
> Gallipoli. I had always assumed that it was only the Australian army that
> served in that conflict. This certainly makes me even prouder to have been
> born in Newfoundland with an ancestry going back well over 200 years. It's
> interesting that a Canadian history component has been added to flavour to
> Alberg 30 Public List. Thanks Gord.
> Peter
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marianne King-Wilson" <addvalue at cogeco.ca>
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" 
> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Royal Newfoundland Regiment
>
>
>> Hello, Peter and Gord
>> What I find most astonishing is that the RNR fought at Gallipoli, before
>> they went to the Somme!
>> My Grandfather left Gallipoli half dead having been most of the campaign
> on
>> the front lines at Suvla.  He began with the 88th Field ambulance, 29th
>> Division, BEF, because he was a doctor.  Having been a cavalry officer in
>> the reserve for years at that point, he assumed a combat command
> eventually,
>> and was among the last to leave both Suvla and Helles at the evacuation.
> The
>> next two months were in a coma in Alexandria.
>> The Newfoundlanders, those of whom survived that bloodbath, went on, if
> you
>> can believe it,  to France.
>> Gallipoli is an unknown campaign to most Canadians, who think it was an
>> Anzac show.  My Grandfather was a third generation Canadian, from a
> Toronto
>> regiment.
>> And despite Newfoundland's entry into Confederation, the RNR heroism is
>> seldom told.
>>
>> Thank you for the marvellous story of Surprise and Confiance.
>>
>> Marianne
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
>> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all"
> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Alden 32 now upper Michigan Rendevous
>>
>>
>> > Good evening Peter -
>> >
>> > Nice to hear from you!  Yes, the RNR fought all through the War of 
>> > 1812,
>> > it
>> > could be said with truth that along with the Indians they were one of
> the
>> > decisive cards the Crown had to play in successfully defending Canada.
>> > They fought in nearly every major and minor land and sea battle of the
>> > war;
>> > the Americans for a time refused to believe that they could possibly be
>> > facing the same men at battlefields hundreds of miles apart - but it 
>> > was
>> > them.  About 980 mustered at the beginning of the war; very few got 
>> > home
>> > at
>> > the end.   Any book about the War will have a fair bit of material 
>> > about
>> > them.  I am a member of the group that re-enacts the RNR's activities
> (but
>> > have not been active for some time)
>> >
>> > The group's website is accessible at
>> >
>> > www.battleofgeorgianbay.huronia.com/rnrsite
>> >
>> > It has long been a bone of contention that the official history taught
> in
>> > Nfld about the regiment begins with the 'Blue Puttees'  in fact they
> saved
>> > Canada a hundred years earlier.
>> >
>> > I did an archaeological expedition to  the Somme a couple of years ago;
>> > that
>> > was a moving but very very sad experience.  If you like I can send you
>> > some
>> > pictures - have you ever been there?
>> >
>> > Gord
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi Gord,
>> >> I had family in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment  that were lost at the
>> >> Battle of the Somme. I had no idea that the "Blue Putties" had served
> in
>> >> a
>> >> Upper Canada. Can you direct me to reference material on the same?
>> >> Peter Milley
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net>
>> >> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all"
>> >> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>> >> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:48 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Alden 32 now upper Michigan Rendevous
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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