ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The remains of a soldier from Newfoundland killed in the battlefields of France during the First World War will be laid to rest in St. John’s Monday, bringing an emotional end to a years-long effort in a place still shaken and forever changed by the bloodshed.

Berkley Lawrence was among the delegation from Newfoundland who accompanied the soldier’s remains home from France last month in advance of Monday’s ceremony, at which the Unknown Soldier will be placed in a black granite tomb at the National War Memorial in St. John’s.