The remains of a First World War solider who died in France are finally coming back to Newfoundland. Could they be those of a Twillingate woman's grandfather?
A special delegation of veterans, military officials, politicians and media will leave St. John's for France on Wednesday morning on a Canadian military plane. It will carry a team that will collect the remains of a Newfoundland soldier killed during the First World War and bring them back home to Newfoundland. The CBC's Terry Roberts will follow the delegation. As he prepared for the assignment, he spoke with Eleanor Manuel of Twillingate, whose grandfather - Frederick White - was killed in Beaumont Hamel on July 1, 1916. He has no known grave, and Eleanor says it's crossed her mind that the unknown soldier who's coming home could be the remains of her grandfather.
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