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1 Captain Charles St. Clair Strong (Regimental Number 30) is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Grave reference XXVI. FF. 5. *Officers who were eventually promoted from the ranks may be identified from their Regimental Number. Other officers who were not from the ranks received the King s Commission, or in the case of those in the Newfoundland Regiment, an Imperial Commission, and were not considered as enlisted. These officers thus had no Regimental Number allotted to them. And since officers did not enlist, they were not then required to re-enlist for the duration, even though, at the beginning, as a private, they had volunteered their services for only a limited time twelve months. (continued)

2 His occupation previous to his enlistment recorded as that of an accountant with R. G. Rendell & Co., General Importers & Dealers, earning a monthly $50.00, Charles Strong was a recruit of the First Draft. He enlisted at the Church Lads Brigade Armoury in St. John s engaged at the daily private soldier s rate of $ on September 2, 1914, and, some three weeks later, was promoted directly to the rank of sergeant, on September 21. Sergeant Strong subsequently attested and was also appointed as colour sergeant, both on October 3. He then paraded and embarked for overseas service on that same date onto the Bowring Brothers vessel Florizel (right courtesy of Admiralty House Museum). ). The ship sailed for the United Kingdom on the following day, joining the convoy carrying the 1 st Canadian Division overseas. In the United Kingdom Sergeant Strong trained with the Battalion: firstly in southern England on the Salisbury Plain; then in Scotland at Fort George (right); at Edinburgh Castle where he was further elevated in rank, to that of company sergeant major, on May 6; and at Stobs Camp, as of May 11, near the Scottish town of Hawick. (Far right above: The Newfoundland Regiment parades at Stobs Camp and is presented with its Colours on June 10, courtesy of Reverend Wilson Tibbo and Mrs. Lillian Tibbo) In early August the four senior Companies, A, B, C, and D which in future were to comprise 1 st Battalion were sent south to Aldershot, in England, from there to travel to the Middle East and to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Companies E and F, the later arrivals, were sent to the new Regimental Depot. At the Royal Borough of Ayr on the west coast of Scotland, the Regimental Depot was being established to serve as a base for the new 2 nd (Reserve) Battalion which as of November of 1915 up until January of was to send re-enforcements to 1 st Battalion, at first to the Middle East and later to the Western Front in France and Belgium. (Right: an aerial view of Ayr probably from the period between the Wars: Newton-on Ayr is to the left of the River Ayr and the Royal Borough is to the right. courtesy of the Carnegie Library at Ayr) CSM Strong was posted to Ayr in August, and was almost immediately once more promoted there, to the post of Depot Sergeant Major, on August 2. He then remained in Scotland, receiving an Imperial Commission some six weeks later again, on September 13, and an appointment to the rank of 2 nd lieutenant

3 It was to be yet another two months before he departed from Scotland with the First Re-enforcement Draft from Ayr to join 1 st Battalion which had been fighting at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula since September 20. Lieutenant Strong boarded His Majesty s Transport Olympic sister ship of Britannic and the ill-starred Titanic on November 14, sailing from Devonport where he had disembarked from Florizel some thirteen months previously. (Right above: Olympic on the right and Aquitania in the centre of the image, lie at anchor in Mudros Bay in the autumn of 1915 from an old photograph originally from the Imperial War Museum) Olympic reached Mudros Harbour on the Greek island of Lemnos at the end of the month. From there the Newfoundland re-enforcements travelled the remaining seventy kilometres or so on a smaller vessel, to be landed at Suvla Bay on December 1. But the newcomers, however, were to remain at Suvla for less than three weeks. (Right above: almost a century later, the area at Suvla where 1 st Battalion and 2 nd Lieutenant Strong - were posted from September 20 until December 20 of 1915 photograph from 2011) On the night of December 19-20, the British abandoned Suvla. The Newfoundlanders, the only non-british unit to have served there, formed a part of the rear-guard for the occasion; 1 st Battalion was then transferred only two days later to Cape Helles on the western tip of the Peninsula. Less than three weeks later again, the British were to abandon the entire Gallipoli venture. (Right above: Cape Helles as seen from the Turkish positions on the misnamed Achi Baba, positions which were never breached. The Newfoundland positions were to the right-hand side of the picture. photograph from 2011) (Right above black and white: W Beach at Cape Helles as it was days before the final British evacuation from Illustration) (Right: W Beach almost a century after its abandonment by British forces and by the Newfoundlanders who were the last soldiers off the beach: vestiges of the wharves in the blackand-white picture are still to be seen photograph from 2011) (continued)

4 (Right: The British destroy their supplies during the final evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Newfoundlanders were among the last to leave on two occasions. photograph taken from the battleship HMS Cornwallis - from Illustration) When the British evacuated the entire Gallipoli Peninsula in January of 1916, 1 st Battalion was sent to Alexandria, arriving there on the 15 th of that month. By that time the Newfoundlanders were in lodgings at the southern end of the Suez Canal, awaiting further orders, it not being certain in which theatre of war the 29 th Division and thus the Newfoundlanders would be required. On March 14 the Newfoundlanders were finally on the move, the six hundred or so officers and men embarking onto His Majesty s Transport Alaunia (right above) at Port Tewfiq at the southern end of the Suez Canal for the journey to the French Mediterranean port of Marseilles, thence to the Western Front. (Right: Port Tewfiq at some time just before the Great War from a vintage post-card) (Right below: British troops march through the port area of the French city of Marseilles. from a vintage post-card) Some three days after the unit s disembarkation on March 22, the Battalion s train arrived at the small provincial town of Pont-Rémy. It had been a cold, miserable journey, the blankets provided for them travelling unused in a separate wagon. Arriving at the station at two in the morning the Newfoundlanders still had a long march ahead of them before they would reach their billets at Buigny l Abbé. It is doubtful that any of those tired soldiers paid much attention to the slow-moving stream flowing under the bridge that they passed on their way from the station. Some three months later the Somme would be a part of their history. (Right: the Somme seen from the bridge at Pont-Rémy as it flows through the community photograph from 2010) On April 13, 1 st Battalion marched into the village of Englebelmer perhaps some fifty kilometres in all from Pont-Rémy - where the Newfoundlanders were billeted, welcomed re-enforcements on the 15 th and, on the evening of the same day, were introduced into the British lines of the Western Front, there to be immediately set to work to improve the communication trenches

5 The Newfoundlanders would also soon be preparing for the British campaign of that summer, to be fought on the ground named for that meandering river, the Somme. (Right: part of the re-constructed trench system in the Newfoundland Memorial Park at Beaumont-Hamel photograph from 2007(?)) 2 nd Lieutenant Strong suffered bomb (hand grenade) wounds to the buttocks and rectum on June 27/28, 1916, during the night-time raids made on enemy trenches in the area of Beaumont-Hamel, just prior to the main attack. Evacuated from the field, he was transported back across the English Channel to the United Kingdom and taken on July 1 for further treatment to the Officers Hospital, 24 Park Street, London West. (Right above: looking down the old battlefield from the British positions to Y Ravine Cemetery which stands on part of the German front line of 1916: The Danger Tree is on the right. photograph taken in 2009) The following is an extract of a Medical Board finding of September 5, 1916: He was wounded by splinters of a bomb (hand-grenade) as follows: (1). A large deep jagged wound on right buttock about 6 long by 4 deep. (2). Another about three inches long nearer to the anus involving the rectum with fæcal fistula. Both wound are now healed but there is some slight contraction of lower part of rectum he is recommended to be allowed to proceed to Newfoundland as likely to make a more complete and rapid recovery there. 2 nd Lieutenant Strong was granted leave for two and a half months recommended by the medical staff during the time of his hospitalization - back to Newfoundland beginning on September 5 and terminating on November 19 of that autumn of On November 15 he was attached to Headquarters in St. John s. During the interim, on October 9, he had been promoted to the rank of full lieutenant. His return to Europe via Halifax on the Florizel commenced on January 31, 1917, but he then remained with the so-called Windsor Draft* in Nova Scotia until he embarked on HMT Ausonia (right) on April 16 for passage to the United Kingdom. He returned to the British Expeditionary Force on the continent on June 19, When he next reported to duty with 1 st Battalion, however, seems not to be recorded

6 *This draft of men, numbering three-hundred nineteen in all, was delayed by an outbreak of mumps and measles and the subsequent quarantine, spending most of this time in the small town of Windsor where two of them remain today. The Newfoundlanders once again moved north into Belgium at the end of June - and once again to the area of Ypres. This had been selected as the theatre of the British summer offensive of Officially named the Third Battle of Ypres, the campaign came to be known to history as Passchendaele, borrowing that name from a small village on a ridge that was one of the British Army s objectives. (Right above: Troops file through the rubble of the medieval city of Ypres on their way to the front in the late summer of from Illustration) 1 st Battalion remained in Belgium until October 17, a small cog in the machinery of the British Army which floundered its way across the sodden countryside of Flanders. Notably it fought in two major engagements, at the Steenbeek on August 16, and at the Broembeek on October 9. Captain Strong promotion coming on the day of the action, August 16 - played his role at the Steenbeek as the Officer Commanding B Company. On the right-hand side of the Newfoundland advance, B Company was in the first two waves of the attack, assisting in the capture of two machineguns in taking the first objective. At this point C and D Companies took over the advance. Captain Strong survived the action unscathed. (Right above: This is the area of the Steenbeek the stream runs close to the trees - and also close to where 1 st Battalion fought the engagement of August 16, It is some eight kilometres distant from a village called Passchendaele. photograph from 2009) (Right: possibly anywhere on the Passchendaele battlefield in the autumn of 1917 from Illustration) There is no seemingly no record as to whether or not Captain Strong was present at the Broembeek or, if so, in what capacity. A week after the encounter of October 9 at the Broembeek, the Newfoundlanders were withdrawn from the Passchendaele campaign in order to prepare for yet another upcoming offensive: Cambrai. They moved back south from Belgium on October 17 into northern France to re-enforce, to organize and to train in the vicinity of Berles-au-Bois, a small community some dozen or so kilometres to the south-west of Arras. (continued)

7 The so-called Battle of Cambrai, attacking the new German positions to the east of the previous battlefields of the Somme and Arras, was to last for barely three weeks, from November 20 until December 4, the Newfoundlanders directly involved at all times during that period. The battle began well for the British who used tanks on a large scale for the first time; but opportunities were squandered and by its close the British had relinquished as much territory as they had gained. 1 st Battalion was again dealt with severely, at Marcoing and at Masnières - where a Caribou stands today: of the total of five-hundred fifty-eight officers and men who went into battle, two-hundred forty-eight had become casualties by the end of the second day. (Right above: the Canal St-Quentin at Masnières, the crossing of which and the establishment of a bridgehead being the first objectives for the Newfoundlanders on November 20, the first day of the Battle of Cambrai photograph from 2009) There does not seem to be any official documentation as to the whereabouts of Captain Strong during the Battle of Cambrai. The evidence that does exist, suggesting that he was not involved, is a series of Western Union cablegrams sent home by him to Newfoundland from London on November 6, December 24 and then January 9 of the New Year, 1918 but these dates, of course, are not those of the battle itself. Nevertheless, between the message of November 6 and that of Christmas Eve, Captain Strong was present in France, but correspondence sent to his father in St. John s on December 7 from the Minister of Militia suggests that he was not at Masnières or Marcoing: I have received a cablegram from the Pay & Record Office stating that Capt. Strong is on a special course in France but not giving any particulars At the beginning of January of 1918, after a snowy Christmas period spent re-enforcing and re-organizing hear Humbercourt, to the south-west of Arras, and withdrawn far from the front, the Newfoundlanders of 1 st Battalion had returned to Belgium, to the Ypres Salient, for a third time. There, like the other British and Empire troops in the area, they were to spend much of their time building and strengthening defences. (Right: an aerial view of Ypres, taken towards the end of 1916 from Illustration) In the meantime, the Germans had been preparing for a final effort to win the War: the Allies were exhausted and lacking man-power after their exertions of the British had fought three campaigns and some units of the French Army had mutinied - and the Germans now had available the extra divisions that their victory over the Russians in the East allowed them. It was expected that they would launch a spring offensive. (continued)

8 (Right: countryside in-between Zonnebeke and Passchendaele (today Passendale) in the vicinity of where the Newfoundlanders were stationed in March and early April of 1918 photograph from 2011) On what date Captain Strong returned to 1 st Battalion seems not to be recorded, but he was there in time to play his role in April of The Germans did as was expected of them. Ludendorff s armies had already launched a powerful thrust on March 21, striking at first in the area of the Somme, overrunning the battlefields of 1916 and beyond; for a while the advance seemed unstoppable. Then a second offensive, Georgette, was launched in the northern sector of the front, in Flanders, where the Newfoundlanders were stationed: the date was April 9. Within two days the situation of the Allies was desperate. (Right above: British troops on the retreat in Flanders in April of 1918 from Illustration) On the day after the first heavy bombardments, April 10, as the Germans approached the towns of Armentières and Nieppe, troops were deployed to meet them. The Newfoundlanders, due to come out of the line and move back to the Somme, boarded buses at three o clock in the afternoon and were suddenly directed southward, towards Nieppe. They were in action, attempting to stem this latest offensive, three hours later. (Right above: the area of La Crêche - the buildings in the background - where the Newfoundlanders de-bussed on April 10 to meet the Germans in the area of Steenwerck and its railway station photograph from 2010.) The British were pushed back to the frontier area of France and Belgium. On the 12 th of April 1 st Battalion, fighting in companies rather than as a single entity, was making a series of stands. On April 13, during the defensive stand near the De Seule crossroads on the Franco-Belgian border, one platoon of C Company was obliterated while trying to check the German advance. The remainder of C Company took up defensive positions along a light railway line and, with A Company, stopped a later enemy attack. B and D Companies (see below) in a failed counter-attack on that evening - were equally heavily involved. (Right above: ground just to the east of Bailleul where 1 st Battalion fought during the period April 12 to 21 photograph from 2013)

9 The following is an entry in the Regimental War Diary (unfortunately the Diarist confused his dates) which surely refers to April 12: About 6 p.m. Capt. Strong came up to the firingline and reported to the C. O., he had arrived with B. & D Coy s. and asked for orders. These two Coys prolonged the left where the enemy showed signs of working round and counter attacked unsuccessfully, a small wood close to our line in which the enemy had penetrated. (Right: These are the De Seule crossroads, lying astride the Franco-Belgian frontier the B is in France, the signs two metres further away, in Belgium - the scene of fierce fighting involving 1 st Battalion on April 12-13, Today there are several houses and a convenience store. The Germans advanced from the direction facing the camera and from the right. photograph from 2009(?)) The son of Captain William George Strong, former sea-captain and later manager of the Nfld. Steam Screw Tug Co., and Eliza Hannah Strong (née Cook) to whom until May of 1917 he had allotted a daily eighty cents from his pay - of Mundy Pond Road, St. John's later of 309, the Southside (an area where they had previously resided) - he had at least one sister, Eliza Gertrude, and two brothers, Ralph and William-Herbert. Captain Strong was reported as having died of wounds in the 2 nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in the Rémy Sidings near Poperinghe on April 13, He succumbed to shrapnel wounds to the abdomen suffered the preceding day, according to the report below to be found in his personal file perhaps on the same day according to the Regimental War Diary - while in Command of both B and D Companies. Charles St. Clair Strong had enlisted at twenty-five years of age date of birth November 2, (Right above: transferring sick and wounded from a field ambulance to the rear through the mud by motorized ambulance and man-power from a vintage post-card) Captain C. S. Strong was admitted here on 13 th on transfer from 76 Field Ambulance about 2p.m..He states that he was wounded at 3p.m. on 12 th. He had a shell wound, a large segment entering through lower angle of right scapula, fracturing it and 5 th, 6 th, and 7 th ribs and emerging in midline at epigastrum. Diaphragm liver and bile passages torn. And bile was flowing from the wound. His pulse was 160 and he had a marked dyspuors(?). His case was absolutely hopeless and death took place at 9:15p.m. on date of admission. Extract from memorandum of Officer Commanding 2 nd Clearing Station Canadian Casualty (continued)

10 (Right: A family memorial right foreground - which stands in the Old Anglican Cemetery on Forest Road in St. John s, commemorates the sacrifice of Captain Strong. photograph from 2015) (The photograph of Lieutenant(?) Strong is from the Provincial Archives.) Captain Charles St. Clair Strong was entitled to the Star, as well as to the British War Medal (centre) and to the Victory Medal (Inter-Allied War Medal) (right)

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