A third-party insolvency monitor has put forward a sum of $104 million to pay the victims of sexual abuse by Newfoundland and Labrador clerics, but its not certain how much money will actually flow to hundreds of claimants.

A letter has emerged that helps explain why Thomas Nangle, a Catholic priest and padre to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War, abruptly cut all ties with his homeland in the 1920s and relocated to the other side of the world.

It's a sombre monument to Newfoundland and Labrador's role in the First World War, and on Monday it turns 100 years old.