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On Friday,Peddle is leading the memorial service at the Canadian War Museum to honour the battle’s anniversary. An ocean away, about 2,500 people — many Newfoundlanders — are gathering at the very sight of the battle.

Bill Hickey, a retired member of the 1st Battalion Royal Newfoundland Regiment and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and one of the Canadian delegates sent by Veterans Affairs to commemorate the anniversaries of the Battles of Baumont-Hamel and the Somme in France and Belgium, said it’s something everybody should see at least once in a lifetime.

“It’s difficult to say, what you see here and how you feel and all this. It’s hard to explain, you almost have to be here yourself,” Hickey said.

egiment and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and one of the Canadian delegates sent by Veterans Affairs to commemorate the anniversaries of the Battles of Baumont-Hamel and the Somme in France and Belgium, said it’s something everybody should see at least once in a lifetime.

“It’s difficult to say, what you see here 

egiment and the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and one of the Canadian delegates sent by Veterans Affairs to commemorate the anniversaries of the Battles of Baumont-Hamel and the Somme in France and Belgium, said it’s something everybody should see at least once in a lifetime.

“It’s difficult to say, what you see here