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After preliminary training, the first group of Canadian Expeditionary Force troops left for England in October 1914. This photo shows members of D Company, First Newfoundland Regiment on the SS Stephano, embarking for service overseas on 20 March 1915.

Black and white photograph. Hundreds of men in uniform solemnly lean over the rails of a ship as it sets sail from Newfoundland to England. — (Robert Palfrey Holloway, Holloway Studio, The Rooms, Provincial Archives Division, VA 37-23.1, St. John's, Newfoundland.)

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