The Great War started on 04 August 1914 and the Newfoundland cabinet - *not* the Governor - decided to entered the war three days later with an offer to Britain of sailors from the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve Division, raised initially by the government in 1902, and a local army battalion made up of volunteers…
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