He says that as news travelled across the Atlantic and casualty lists appeared in local newspapers, all of St. John’s mourned. “It is kind of a schizophrenic day for us,” says Joan Herder, Robert Herder’s sister-in-law. “It is hard for me to explain,” says Robert Herder, now 90. David Facey-Crowther spent 35 years at Memorial University in St. John’s. Mayo Lind, an enlistee and voluminous letter writer whose wartime dispatches were published in The Daily News in St. John’s, openly scolded the Brits for failing to grasp this distinction.

Source: National Post July 01, 2016 20:15 UTC