Later this month, Newfoundland and Labrador’s sons will come home. Sons who left so long ago, fought for King and country, died on a faraway battlefield and were buried in a grave marked with their name, or simply as a Newfoundland soldier, known unto God.

Those sons were interred near the battlefields on which they fought or, if their resting place is unknown, their names are engraved on the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial in France. This year, only one son will make that poignant, final journey home, over a century after his death, but through him, physically returning to the pineclad hills of Newfoundland and Labrador, all of those lost will also be symbolically making the trip.