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NEWFOUNDLAND WEEKUnder the Auspices of
The Royal Colonial Institute
The British Empire League
The Victoria League
The British Empire Club
The Overseas Club
The Newfoundland War Contingent Association
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Organization Committee:
Major H. A. Timewell, (Chairman).
Sir Harry Wilson, K.C.M.G., (Royal Empire League).
Mr. C. Freeman - Murray, (British Empire League).
Mr. W. Herbert Daw, (British Empire Club).
Mr. R. F. Jones, (Over-Seas Club).
Sir Joseph Outerbridge, (Newfoundland War Contingent Association).
Mr. H. F. Reeve, C. M. G. (Newfoundland War Contingent Association).
Mr. E. R. Morris, (Newfoundland War Contingent Association).
Mr. M. M. Beeton, (Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co., Ltd.).
Capt. J. C. Karn. (2nd Batt. Newfoundland Regiment).
Capt. J. E. J. Fox, (2nd Batt. Newfoundland Regiment).
2nd Lieut. H. A. Anderson, (Hon. Secretary).
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Newfoundland Week Souvenir Programme25 September 1917
London, England
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Newfoundland Week Souvenir Programme25 September 1917
London, England
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The Times - August 28th, 1917NEWFOUNDLAND
(Newfoundland, the oldest British Colony, has given a large proportion of her manhood to the Great Cause, and out of her small population has suffered comparatively heavy losses. The regiment has gained honour in France and Gallipoli, and the Newfoundland R.N.R. has played no small part at sea).
There lies a Land in the West and North
Whither the bravest men went forth,
And daunted not by fog or ice
They reached at last to a Paradise.
Full two thousand miles it lay
Washed by a sea of English grey.
And they named it Newfoundland at sight;
It's rather the Land of Heart's Delight!
Now after close five hundred years
You give us back with fearless eyes.
Dimm'd with glory but not with tears
The greatest gift that a Land can prize.
You give back all that there is to give,
The young who die so the Land may live,
Nor willed it otherwise.
Die? They were weary, God gave them rest.
Fall? They are raised for evermore!
Whether on Beaumont Hamel's crest
Or "Caribou Hill" by the Turkish shore,
Never their glory can fade or fall
Who have won the greatest Cross of all,
Nor ever their country dies!
Ah! Men must know you to understand,
Have seen the cliffs of your rugged land,
Have seen the mist come rolling down
The hills that guard the glistening town,
Have seen the schooners creeping in,
And smelt the homely smell within
The fishing port asleep,
And in the rivers flowing free
Through the spruce woods to the sea
Have known the pools at break of day
Where silver-coated salmon play,
And seen the tangled river's brink
Where caribou come down to drink,
And beavers build and creep.
All this is shared with those who fell.
It is the Land they loved so well.
For many a soldier lying low
In some French village - battle glow,
Sees before his blood is spent
The sunset over Heart's Content.
Many a sailor lost at sea
Sweeping a mined-in channel free,
Sees his schooner far away,
And sunrise in Conception Bay.
Aye, though they died on distant shores
They died for This! It's doubly yours!
And there is Pride and Comfort too
To know what they once loved and knew.
There lies a Land in the West and North
Whither the bravest men went forth,
And daunted not by fog or ice
They reached at last to a Paradise.
A Land to be won by those who durst,
No wonder the English chose it first,
And they named it Newfoundland at sight;
It's rather the Land of Heart's Delight!
P. E. GOLDSMITH
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Newfoundland Week Souvenir Programme25 September 1917
London, England
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Newfoundland Regiment Band EngagementsHyde Park
Sept. 22nd at 3 p.m.
3rd London General Hospital
Sept. 23rd at 2:30 p.m.
Gifford House Auxiliary Hospital Sept. 23rd at 5 p.m.
Royal Exchange, E. C. Sept. 24th at 11 a.m.
Weybridge Convalescent Home Sept 24th at 5 p.m.
His Majesty's Theatre Sept 25th at 2:30 p.m.
Royal Overseas Officers Club Sept. 25th at 5:30 p.m.
St. Dunstans's Sept. 26th at 1:15 p.m.
Grove Military Hospital
Sept. 26th at 5 p.m.
Buckingham Palace (Forecourt) Sept. 27th at 6:30 p.m.
Queen Alexandra Military Hospital Sept. 28th at 1:30 p.m.
Sheffield September 29th
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Audio of the Royal Newfoundland Regimental Band22 September 1917
London, England
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One of the songs played as part of the Newfoundland Week Programme was the Regimental March - "The Banks of Newfoundland". Click on the sound button to listen to it being played by today's Newfoundland Regimental Band.18
Royal Newfoundland Regimental Band on the grounds at Wandsworth Hospital during Newfoundland Week.1917
London, England
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Royal Newfoundland Regimental Band on the grounds at Wandsworth Hospital during Newfoundland Week.23 September 1917
London, England
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Royal Newfoundland Regimental Band on the grounds at Wandsworth Hospital during Newfoundland Week.23 September 1917
London, England
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Royal Newfoundland Regimental Band on the grounds at Wandsworth Hospital during Newfoundland Week.23 September 1917
London, England
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Sable Chief - the Newfoundland Regiment mascot, was acquired at Ayr, Scotland a gift from a Canadian Officer who was serving in England. Sable Chief was a Newfoundland dog that probably weighed 200 pounds or more. He kept in step when marching with the Regimental Band, and it is said that he would stand up at the opening bars of the National Anthem and remain at attention until it concluded. Sable Chief accompanied the band to London for Newfoundland Week in 1917 (see photographs in the exhibit) and when the Depot moved from Ayr to Winchester in 1918 he continued to lord over the orderly room. He was struck down one day by a careless truck driver and his body was turned over to a taxidermist and his remains were on display at the Newfoundland Naval and Military Museum in St. John's. Currently it is not known where Sable Chief's remains are located.23
Royal Newfoundland Regimental Band at the Royal Exchange.24 September 1917
London, England
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