Video: Newfoundland News, No.1 (1916)

The Library and Archives Canada has a YouTube channel with videos that are of interest.

Below is video entitled “Newfoundland News, No.1 (1916)” with a run time of 9 minutes and 10 seconds. The description is as follows:

Newfoundland Soldiers Visit Home of Robbie Burns. Soldiers visit the sites of Scotland including Burn’s birthplace, the monument and tea garden at Auld Brig O’Doon and the Tam O’Shanter Inn at Ayr. Newfoundlanders sitting outside bell tents in uniform reading letters. Cut away to horse drawn sleighs in front of government buildings in downtown St. John’s and various other views of Newfoundland as soldiers remember their home. Soldiers exchange stories.Scenes In and Around Aldershot. Thousands of men of various regiments are encamped here. Shots of artillery and cavalry units parading.Regimental Turnout and Horse Parade. Endless steam of allied soldiers parading and horses being put through their paces.Mounting Guard at The Depot and Changing Reliefs. Men of the Newfoundland Regiment mounting guard and changing reliefs at Aldershot.

Source: Library and Archives Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Archives, 1979-0202, IDC 20728.