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Son of William and Alfreda Whalen, of Caplin Cove, Random, Trinity Bay.
Digital gallery of Seaman Simeon Whalen
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Seaman Simeon Whalen
In memory of the men and women from the Clarenville, Newfoundland area who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the Clarenville Legion (Branch 27) for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Seaman Simeon Whalen
Son of William and Alfreda Whalen of Caplin Cove, Newfoundland.
Digital gallery of
Seaman Simeon Whalen
Grave marker of Simeon Whalen, found in the United Church
Cemetery, Caplin Cove, Newfoundland.
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Seaman Simeon Whalen
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Seaman Simeon Whalen
Digital gallery of
Seaman Simeon Whalen
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Seaman Simeon Whalen
A marble shaft at United Church cemetery, Caplin Cove, NL was erected by the Whelan family in memory of Simeon Whelan, a local man killed during the First World War.
Photo Credit: W.T. Meadus
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IN MEMORY OF SIMEON, SON OF WM.T. AND ELEPIDA WHELAN. DROWNED FROM H.M.S. BAYANO. MAR. 11TH 1915. AGED 24 YEARS
AWAY FROM FRIENDS AND RELATIONS ALL. I'M LEFT ALONE TO WAIT MY CALL. WHEN THAT CALL COMES I HOPE TO SEE, ALL MY FRIENDS IN ENDLESS GLORY
http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=2098
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In memory of the men and women from the Clarenville, Newfoundland area who went away to war and did not come home. Submitted on behalf of the Clarenville Legion (Branch 27) for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Son of William and Alfreda Whalen of Caplin Cove, Newfoundland.
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Grave marker of Simeon Whalen, found in the United Church Cemetery, Caplin Cove, Newfoundland.
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A marble shaft at United Church cemetery, Caplin Cove, NL was erected by the Whelan family in memory of Simeon Whelan, a local man killed during the First World War. Photo Credit: W.T. Meadus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [front/devant] IN MEMORY OF SIMEON, SON OF WM.T. AND ELEPIDA WHELAN. DROWNED FROM H.M.S. BAYANO. MAR. 11TH 1915. AGED 24 YEARS AWAY FROM FRIENDS AND RELATIONS ALL. I'M LEFT ALONE TO WAIT MY CALL. WHEN THAT CALL COMES I HOPE TO SEE, ALL MY FRIENDS IN ENDLESS GLORY http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=2098
BEAUMONT-HAMEL (NEWFOUNDLAND) MEMORIAL Somme, France
The largest of the battlefield parks established in memory of Newfoundlanders who fell in the First World War is Beaumont Hamel, nine kilometres directly north of the town of Albert.
In BEAUMONT HAMEL MEMORIAL PARK, which was officially opened by Earl Haig on June 7, 1925, the monument of the great bronze caribou, emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, stands on the highest point overlooking St John's Road and the slopes beyond. At the base of the statue three tablets of bronze carry the names of over 800 members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, and the Mercantile Marine who gave their lives in the First World War and have no known grave. In the lodge, which houses the reception room for visitors to the Park, a bronze plaque, unveiled in 1961 by the Hon. Joseph Smallwood, Premier of Newfoundland, lists the Battle Honours won by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and pays tribute to its fallen.
The park is one of the few in France or Belgium where the visitor can see a Great War battlefield much as it was. The actual trenches are still there and something of the terrible problem of advancing over such country can be appreciated by the visitor.
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, no unit suffered heavier losses than the Newfoundland Regiment, which had gone into action 801 strong. When the roll call of the unwounded was taken next day, only 68 answered their names. The final figures that revealed the virtual annihilation of the Battalion gave a grim count of 233 killed or dead of wounds, 386 wounded, and 91 missing. Every officer who went forward in the Newfoundland attack was either killed or wounded.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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