WWI – Extramural Activity

Continuing Conflicts

2020-09-152020-09-18Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The war memorial garden in City Way (Sandy Row) commemorates those from the Great War, World War II, and “Continuing Conflicts” which includes the “Troubles”. There is also a fourth, smaller, stone, with John Maxwell Edmonds’s memorial epitaph.

“The Great War 1914-1918: In memory of the fallen”, with John McCrae’s poem ‘In Flanders Fields‘.
“Second World War 1939-1945: Freedom is the sure possession of those have the courage to defend it. Their ideal is our legacy. Their sacrifice is our inspiration.”
“Continuing Conflicts: We remember those who have given their lives. The wounded and those who serve in continued conflicts around the world.”

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1200 x 1600)

Camera Settings: f7.1, 1/200, ISO 3200, full size 3672 x 4896

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1200 x 1667)

Camera Settings: f7.1, 1/200, ISO 3200, full size 3672 x 4754

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1200 x 1600)

Camera Settings: f7.1, 1/200, ISO 3200, full size 3672 x 4896

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1400 x 1170)

Camera Settings: f4.8, 1/80, ISO 200, full size 4392 x 3672

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1400 x 800)

Camera Settings: f3.5, 1/80, ISO 200, full size 4896 x 2796

X07530 X07529 X07528 X07533 X07534

Their Amazing Attack

2020-09-072020-09-07Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“I am not an Ulsterman but yesterday, the First of July, as I followed their amazing attack, I felt that I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world. – Wilfred [Wilfrid] Spender – The Somme 1916”. Spender was born in England but served as quartermaster of the Ulster Volunteers and general staff officer of the 36th (Ulster) Division. He won the Military Cross for actions at Thiepval, and became Cabinet Secretary of the new “Northern Ireland” in 1921 (WP). His words are on one of three new murals in Belvoir Park, alongside two large flags – the Union Flag and Ulster Banner. Above the WWI mural old RHC lettering is causing the paint to fall away.

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1500 x 1000)

Camera Settings: f7.1, 1/160, ISO 100, full size 5616 x 3744

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1500 x 1052)

Camera Settings: f5.6, 1/250, ISO 100, full size 4610 x 3233

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1600 x 1200)

Camera Settings: f4.4, 1/500, ISO 80, full size 4896 x 3672

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1500 x 1000)

Camera Settings: f6.3, 1/320, ISO 100, full size 5616 x 3744

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1600 x 872)

Camera Settings: f7.1, 1/200, ISO 100, full size 4956 x 2700

X07504 X07505 X07501 X07502 [X07506] X07503 Belvoir Pk

On Foreign Fields

2020-08-162020-08-16Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“This plaque is dedicated to those men and women of the Orange Institution who volunteered to fight in the Great War for king and empire and who made the ultimate sacrifice on foreign fields.” A WWI commemorative plaque has been added to the Orange hall in Carrickfergus (seen previously in M05249).

Click to enlarge (to 1200 x 1600)

Camera Settings: f5.6, 1/250, ISO 200, full size 3610 x 4813

Click to enlarge (to 1600 x 1200)

Camera Settings: f8, 1/260, ISO 640, full size 4823 x 3617

X07374 X07373

Tour Of Clough

2020-07-132020-07-12Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The Red Hand Defenders flute band will commence its march from the Clough (Co. Down) Orange hall at 12:30 and its route will take it under the Orange arch in Main Street, shown here, with King Billy flanked by portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip (on the left) and soldiers from the 36th (Ulster) Division (on the right). It will visit the houses in Jordanstown, Church Grove, Church Court, and Claragh Court (PC).

Click and click again to enlarge (to 800 x 800)

Camera Settings: f2.4, 1/2088, ISO 50, full size 1181 x 1881

X07284

As The Stars Are Known To The Night

2020-07-032020-07-03Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

William McFadzean won a VC for sacrificing himself on the morning before the Battle Of The Somme (in WWI) and is commemorated in several murals. He shares a plaque here with “Vol W Miller”, who is perhaps the (modern UVF) volunteer Billy Miller from Donegall Pass who was killed in an RUC ambush in 1983 (Long Kesh I/O). The two names on the newer plaque are unknown on-line, perhaps having survived the Troubles and recently deceased.

The title of today’s post comes from the Laurence Binyon poem For The Fallen.

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1200 x 800)

Camera Settings: f4.9, 1/125, ISO 80, full size 4896 x 3264

Click and click again to enlarge (to 800 x 1200)

Camera Settings: f4.8, 1/80, ISO 100, full size 3264 x 4896

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1900 x 1350)

Camera Settings: f4.9, 1/100, ISO 80, full size 3985 x 2832

X07249 X07251 X07250 replaces the old Titanic mural in Ballarat St

Newbuildings Victoria

2020-05-302020-05-30Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The garden of remembrance in Newbuildings was opened in November, 2018, and has grown to include several boards (second image), including “Newbuildings Victoria LOL 1087 remembers our murdered brethren.” (for “Orange Victims” day in September, 2019), troops going over the top at the Somme, and a Celtic Cross with Irish-based British Army regiments (and their battles): Royal Irish Rifles, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Irish Rangers, and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. On the front railings are now tarps related to the pandemic (“Thank you to all our NHS staff and essential workers from the local Orange family. Together fighting Covid-19”) and the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1800 x 1200)

Camera Settings: f10, 1/200, ISO 200, full size 5184 x 3456

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1800 x 1200)

Camera Settings: f10, 1/200, ISO 200, full size 5184 x 3456

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1800 x 1200)

Camera Settings: f10, 1/200, ISO 200, full size 5184 x 3456

X07155 X07150 X07152 [X07151] [X07153] [X07154] Duncastle Road

A Soldier Of The Great War

2020-03-162020-03-16Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“The Great War (1914-1918) 36th (Ulster) Division. This memorial is dedicated to the memory of those who fell in the Great War. May their names be held in honour and their sacrifice be remembered with pride.” Next to to the UVF Flute Band 50th anniversary mural and the Singer Sergeant painting (Observe The Sons Of Ulster).

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1300 x 1782)

Camera Settings: f8, 1/160, ISO 200, full size 2880 x 3948

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1800 x 1160)

Camera Settings: f8, 1/160, ISO 200, full size 5196 x 3348

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1200 x 1800)

Camera Settings: f9, 1/160, ISO 80, full size 3264 x 4896

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1800 x 1432)

Camera Settings: f3.3, 1/100, ISO 80, full size 4104 x 3264

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1800 x 1334)

Camera Settings: f4.1, 1/125, ISO 80, full size 4404 x 3264

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1400 x 1350)

Camera Settings: f4.1, 1/160, ISO 80, full size 3384 x 3264

X07005 X07006 X06986 X06985 X06983 X06982

Observe The Sons Of Ulster

2020-02-122020-02-12Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

The 62 year-old painter John Singer Sergeant went to the western front in 1918 to find a scene suitable for painting on the theme of Anglo-American co-operation during the war. On the 21st of August, however, he witnessed at Arras British soldiers blinded by a German mustard gas attack, one following behind the other in a human chain, each group being directed by an orderly towards a dressing station. The War Memorials Committee agreed to change its commission and Sergeant received 600 pounds (about 34,000 in today’s money) for his painting, Gassed (WP). This copy is in St Leonard’s Crescent, part of the 50th anniversary garden and mural for the UVF regimental band and memorial for east Belfast volunteers who joined the 36th Division (which did not fight at Arras as it had been disbanded in May, 1918). The plaque below list the nine counties of Ulster and reads “To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. Sons Of Ulster RBP 375.”

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1700 x 1480)

Camera Settings: f4, 1/80, ISO 160, full size 3750 x 3264

X06984

Resting Place

2020-01-152020-01-15Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

James “Yogi” Young of Kilwinning Ayrshire was a Scottish supporter of Belfast flute bands. He died in 2016(?). This memorial bench, which also commemorates the centenary of the Great War, is in the York Road Historical Society’s memorial garden. (See previously: Joint Forces | Pride Of The Shore)

Click and click again to enlarge (to 2000 x 1278)

Camera Settings: f3.3, 1/60, ISO 160, full size 4224 x 2700

Click and click again to enlarge (to 1700 x 1138)

Camera Settings: f3.3, 1/60, ISO 125, full size 4320 x 2892

X06952 X06953

Joint Forces

2020-01-012020-01-01Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

At the end of September, York Road Historical Society (which does not appear to have an on-line presence) launched a new garden of remembrance to British WWI service-members in the “Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force”, symbolised by the crest of Strategic Command (formerly the Joint Forces Command).

Click and click again to enlarge (to full size)

Camera Settings: f3.8 1/80, ISO 125, full size 3097 x 4896

Click and click again to enlarge (to full size)

Camera Settings: f3.8 1/80, ISO 125, full size 4560 x 1704

X06950 X06949 “”I am not an Ulsterman but yesterday 1st July as I followed their amazing attack I felt I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world” – Captain Wilfred [Wilfrid] Spender, the Somme 1916.” at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them lest we forget

	John Doherty on The Wide Blue Yonder
	Extramural Activity on The Wide Blue Yonder
	Anonymous on The Leper Window
	Hey on It Hasn’t Gone Away, You…
	John Doherty on The Wide Blue Yonder

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this: