Charles Owen Slacke is remembered on the War Memorial in Newcastle and on memorials in Malone Golf Club and Newcastle Parish Church. He was killed at Thiepval on 1 July 1916
Continue reading “July 6 – Stories of the Somme – UVF officer from Tipperary had Newcastle and Belfast links”
Virtually every community in Northern Ireland lost husbands, sons and brothers at the Somme. One such was the Fountain area of Londonderry. Continue reading “Stories of the Somme – The Fountain men of Londonderry”
Three men from Dunadry, a small village in the Six Mile Valley on the road from Belfast to Antrim. One is decorated twice for bravery
Continue reading “July 4 – Stories of the Somme – Dunadry men”
In total nine members of the 36th Division were awarded the Victoria Cross Continue reading “July 2 – The Victoria Cross record of the 36th (Ulster) Division”
There was not an aspect of society in Northern Ireland upon which the Battle of the Somme did not impact. 15 Instonians, former pupils of Belfast city-centre school, the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. 703 past pupils served in WW1, 132 or more gave their lives in the struggle.
Continue reading “July 1 – Stories of the Somme 1 – Inst”
For most conspicuous bravery near Epehy, France, on 24th and 25th June, 1917. Second-Lieutenant John Spencer Dunville, 1st Royal Dragoons. Continue reading “June 24 – John Spencer Dunville VC”
The London Gazette of June 21, 1916, recorded that Bombardier Joseph Francey of Ballymena had been awarded the DCM. Continue reading “June 21 – DCM award to WW1 Ballymena Gunner”
