Volume 20 www.legionnl.com 11 Adam and Mary Ann (Strong) Seaward were living in Clarenville, with four of their sons and two daughters when war broke out in 1914. They had moved to Clarenville from Gooseberry Cove, SW Arm, around 1895. Their son, Isaiah, the eldest at 31 years of age, was married and living in Clarenville with his wife Clara and four-year-old son Edward. Living with their parents were sons Horatius, age 26; Bartholomew, 24; Joseph, 15; and Andrew, 14; and daughters Maggie, 19, and Alice, 16. Isaiah and Bart were Reservists in the Royal Newfoundland Naval Reserve, which had been established in Newfoundland in 1900. As a member of the reserve they were required to complete 28 days training aboard H.M.S. “Calypso” and to “serve King and Country as required”. Isaiah, Reserve number 821x, received notice from the Registrar General of the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve to “report yourself to H.M.S. “Calypso”, with Certificate and in Uniform at 9 AM on Monday, 3rd of August, 1914”. At the completion of further training he served the war on H.M.S. “Lion”. Horatius had a good job as a locomotive fireman with the Reid Newfoundland Railway, but when the call came for young men to serve he did not hesitate. On September 8, 1914, Horatius joined the Newfoundland Regiment and was assigned number 172, becoming one of the First Five Hundred - a “Blue Puttee”. His preliminary training took place at Pleasantville, St. John’s, and on October 4th Horatius and the remainder of the 1st Battalion Newfoundland Regiment sailed for England on the S.S. “Florizel”, joining a convoy from Halifax. The Seawards of Clarenville in the First World War continued....
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