CORPORAL WALTER NORMAN
NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT
27TH FEBRUARY 1917 AGE 21
BURIED: GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS, FRANCE
Their "country" was Newfoundland, a self-governing British Dominion with a population of 240,000. Despite its size, Newfoundland managed to recuit a complete battalion, and even more amazingly to maintain its numbers despite the almost 90% casualties the regiment suffered on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Walter Norman was killed on 27 February 1917 in an attack on the German trenches at Sailly-Saillisel.