photo of an army tent camp just ourside St. John's in 1916
Credit: Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archive, Collection 137, photo number 0441.

1914 World War I

The Newfoundland Regiment's camp by Quidi Vidi Lake just outside St. John's. By February, 1916, over 2,000 men had enlisted. During the war 1,300 men in the Newfoundland Regiment would die.