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Greenlit: Newfoundland at Armageddon, CBC

By ⋅ May 19, 2016 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ ⋅Post a comment
Newfoundland at Armageddon (1 x 120′) – Documentary that tells the epic story of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and its bloody destruction on the morning of July 1, 1916, a battle that led to enormous consequences for Newfoundlanders. On July 1st 1916, 800 soldiers of the Newfoundland regiment rose from St. John’s Road trench and marched into no man’s land. “We died like tethered goats,” recalled one officer. Less than 35 minutes later almost every Newfoundlander was wounded or dead. As the boy soldiers suffered, so did the heroic women of their lives – who somehow picked up the scattered pieces. How the women did it is central to the story at the heart of this tragedy.

Channel: CBC

Producer: Gala Films / Morag Loves Company

TX: 30th June 2016

Source: CBC press release

Tags: CBC

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