Young Mr Knight died almost a hundred years ago

Poor young George Knight was one of the sad casualties of the "Great

War." Of course, many local men died in the Dardenelles campaign.

That campaign was well remembered here by my father's generation and

by that before his, so much that the name, Dardanelles, came to be

used as a nickname for rough parts of town, places where you might get

beat up.



This was a shot on that roll of remarkable Kodak Gold VR200 that

expired in November 1990.



I'm posting this on July 1st, Memorial Day, the national day of

mourning established by the Newfoundland government in 1918 to

remember the war dead of WW1, and especially to commemorate the battle

at Beaumont-Hamel. Today the two countries, Canada and Newfoundland,

are one, and most Canadians celebrate instead the national day of

celebration for Canada. It's an odd day, then, here in Newfoundland.