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Newfoundland Week Souvenir Programme
25 September 1917
London, England

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Newfoundland Regiment Band Engagements

Hyde 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 Band
22 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.

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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.

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Royal Newfoundland Regimental Band at the Royal Exchange.
24 September 1917
London, England

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Royal Newfoundland Regimental Band at the Royal Exchange.
24 September 1917
London, England