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Thread #121945 Message #2668427
Posted By: Peace
30-Jun-09 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01
Subject: RE: BS: Oooohh Canada Day 2009.07.01
And we have Canada Day because of people like him, Gnu.
"For anyone who may not understand the Beaumont Hamel reference:
"Battle of Beaumont Hamel Casualties:
733 of 801 men in the 1st Newfoundland Regiment were killed or wounded"
Battle of the Somme, 1916
July 1 commemorates that day for Newfoundland (and Labrador)