Officer of the Newfoundland Frontiersman, 1914

[ghamilt1]

This is my finished heavy conversion project which portrays an officer of the Legion of Frontiersmen, Newfoundland in 1914 just as these men were being incorporated into the Newfoundland Regiment at the out break of the Great War. I offered a more detailed historic explanation of who these men were in an earlier post in the vbench WIP forum here, so feel free to check out the steps that brought us here and some back ground on this pretty unique figure.
https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/newfoundland-legion-of-frontiersmen.282591/

I would be happy to entertain and questions anyone might have, and thanks for having a look.

 

[valiant]

Love it - really appeals to my love of the offbeat!!

 

[ghamilt1]

Love it - really appeals to my love of the offbeat!!

Thanks Steve. Off beat might be an understatement here. I would be floored if there is another figure of a Legion of Frontiersman member out there. Most people in Canada aren't aware the organization even existed, so I can't imagine folks outside of Canada would know about them.

 

[DEL]

Proper modelling...mightily impressed, kudos pal
Interesting back storyas well.
Cheers
Derek

 

[ghamilt1]

Thanks Derek! I think there's a lot of interesting stories out there just waiting to be told.

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Wonderful paintwork again

Mobo

 

[Nap]

Hi there

Great finish on this very unusual and as Stve said offbeat subject , he's come out really well

Good SBS and reworking prior to painting to this high level

Great background info , I certainly had no idea about these guys

Why not put a piece into FOTM as well as Vignette & Diorama comp

Thanks for sharing

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[oldtrousers]

Excellent work on a fascinating subject. Well done!

Scott

 

[ghamilt1]

Thanks Scott, Mobo and Nap.
I'm very happy to have brought some attention to the service of the people of Newfoundland. That area didn't become a province of Canada until 1949, so they were technically rendering service to the British Empire at that time. But their story is all the more interesting because of it. They served with the Anzac and British forces at Gallipoli. No other "Canadian" unit had that distinction. Their most famous, or infamous story comes on July 1, 1916 when as part of the assault battalions that took part on the first day of the Somme offensive, the Newfoundland regiment was effectively wiped out at Beaumont-Hamel, with only 68 men answering roll call out of an original contingent of over 800 officers and men. So in Newfoundland today, while the rest of Canada celebrates July 1 as Canada Day, Newfoundlanders also pause to reflect on the sacrifice paid by that small colony.

 

[swralph]

This is a cracker.

 

[1969]

Excellent work and finish to this figure, this is the part of the hobby I love seeing the most. Great initial idea and completed to a high standard.
Steve

 

[ghamilt1]

Excellent work and finish to this figure, this is the part of the hobby I love seeing the most. Great initial idea and completed to a high standard.
Steve

Thanks Steve. I also enjoyed doing the research on this one, because it's such an obscure subject. Maybe that's the old history teacher in me coming to the fore front.