An unknown Newfoundland soldier, who fought and died on the battlefields in northeastern France during the First World War, is back home this weekend for the first time in more than a hundred years.
Thursday in northern France was a poignant one for a large Canadian and Newfoundland delegation as momentum builds towards to repatriation of a Newfoundland soldier who died in the First World War.
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