The video that was played on loop prior to the service was available at https://youtu.be/NuPx3G5v0hU

The program for today’s service is available by clicking here.

All images and videos used during the ceremony were either original, open source, or were used with permission.

Open source images included:

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Newfoundland_National_War_Memorial.jpg
• https://www.veterans.gc.ca/images/image-gallery/websized/basil-gotto-caribou1.jpg
• https://www.veterans.gc.ca/images/image-gallery/fullsized/80503653PF7.JPG
• https://www.veterans.gc.ca/images/image-gallery/fullsized/160806267PF2.JPG
• https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=79958&picture=forget-me-not-heart

Thank you to Legion Magazine for permission to include their “Military Moment” on the Battle of Beaumont Hamel.  The original video is available at https://legionmagazine.com/en/2016/06/military-moments-beaumont-hamel/

Thank you to YouTube user dog5011 for permission to include their “Sunrise Timelapse – San Francisco.”  The original video is available at https://youtu.be/JY9wocfTkto

Thanks to our special guest speakers and performers:

• Seamus O’Regan, Minister of National Resources (https://soregan.liberal.ca/)
• Rana Sarkar, Consul General of Canada in San Francisco (https://www.international.gc.ca/country-pays/us-eu/san_francisco-rep.aspx?lang=eng)
• Emily March-MacCuish
• Julie Humphries-Burke
• Robert Colbourne (HHMChoral on Facebook / HHMChoral on YouTube / HHMChoral’s physically distant rendition of O Canada)
• Aaron Bennett
• Charlie Martin
• Emily Finch
• Andrea Lodge (http://www.andrealodge.com/)
• Speaker Scott Reid, M.H.A. (https://www.assembly.nl.ca/Members/YourMember/ReidScott.aspx)
• Derrick Bragg, M.H.A. (https://www.assembly.nl.ca/Members/YourMember/BraggDerrick.aspx)

Finally, I want to thank all of the members of US Branch #25 and the other branches in the US Western Zone of the Royal Canadian Legion, as well as members of our U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps – Arkansas Division, that provided individual videos that made up this service.

For those interested in additional information on the history of Beaumont Hamel and Commemoration Day (a.k.a., Memorial Day), please visit:

• Newfoundland’s war: How one battle shaped a province (McLean’s) – https://www.macleans.ca/society/newfoundlands-war-how-one-battle-shaped-a-province/
• Forget-Me-Not: Memorial Day In Newfoundland & Labrador – https://idontblog.ca/forget-me-not-memorial-day-in-newfoundland-labrador/
• Trail of the Caribou: Documentary (CBC) – https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/trail-of-the-caribou-1.3661371
• How the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel Devastated Newfoundland (CBC) – https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1366224451952
• Trail of the Caribou (Veterans Affairs Canada) – https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/overseas/first-world-war/france/BeaumontHamel/caribou-trail

Finally, you can view the service that was recorded at the National War Memorial St. John’s, Newfoundland this morning at https://www.facebook.com/NLRCL/videos/2569151683302127/