It started 100 years ago, with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment's padre, Thomas Nangle. He wanted an unknown soldier from Newfoundland repatriated to honour all the men killed. It didn’t happen in his lifetime, but a small but mighty team worked to fulfil his dream. In Someone's Son: Repatriating Newfoundland's Unknown Soldier, the CBC’s Heather Gillis, along with video producers Chelsea Jacobs and Ted Dillon, follow a story a century in the making - from diving deep into archives, to France to speak to the team who exhumed the remains, to, finally, the unknown soldier’s homecoming.
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