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The unknown soldier will represent the service and sacrifice of those who have served in all branches of the military. The ceremony will include the interring of the unknown soldier's remains. The Legion is making plans to hold a centennial ceremony next summer that will rival the one held 100 years ago. It's called a national memorial because Newfoundland was a self-governing Dominion until Confederation with Canada in 1949. The official opening of the memorial on Jattracted an estimated 10,000 people, including General Douglas Haig, who commanded the British expeditionary force during the First World War. Pictured here are Newfoundland and Labrador's culture minister, Steve Crocker, left, and Legion spokesman Gary Browne. Command, and all three levels of government. John's and establish a tomb of the unknown soldier is the result of a partnership between the Royal Canadian Legion, N.L.

The total cost of the restoration and tomb has not yet been released.Ī plan to restore the National War Memorial in St. The project is years in the making, and is the result of a partnership between the Royal Canadian Legion, who are the stewards of the memorial, and all three levels of government. It's where we need it to be," said Steve Crocker, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation. John's war memorial's centennialĪ contract award for the project is imminent, say provincial government officials, and construction fences will soon be erected around one of the province's best known sites of remembrance. Remains of unknown soldier to be repatriated for St.John's war memorial will be a 'special place' with remains of unknown soldier, say veterans

The project will include the return of the remains of a soldier - most likely a member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - next spring from a First World War cemetery in northern France, and the creation of a tomb of the unknown soldier. That means access to this solemn site will be off limits for months as the imposing downtown cenotaph is refurbished for the first time since the 1960s. John's, ahead of the memorial's 100th anniversary in 2024.

Work is about to begin on an important restoration project at the Newfoundland National War Memorial in St.