Full Article: http://www.cbncompass.ca/opinion/2016/11/10/why-newfoundland-and-labrador-always-remembers.html
The First World War was deserving of its title as “The Great War.” This was the first time industrial warfare swept across a global scale.
Soldiers and civilians alike perished across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East as millions more from the Americas and Oceania wept for their fallen. This was also the first war that Newfoundland participated in as a Dominion rather than a colony. The outbreak of war in 1914 offered an opportunity for Newfoundlanders to distinguish themselves as fiercely loyal to Great Britain.
