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A farewell photograph taken (probably) in 1914 outside Tom Oliver’s pub at the corner of Bow Street and Antrim Street. Images from Time
A farewell photograph taken (probably) in 1914 outside Tom Oliver’s pub at the corner of Bow Street and Antrim Street.
RIR IN THE TRENCHES
RIR IN THE TRENCHES

11 RIR in the trenches. Note the cloth caps and dug-out entrance on the right.
RIR IN THE TRENCHES

RIR IN THE TRENCHES

11 RIR in the trenches. Note the creature comforts.

CONNAUGHT CEMETERY
CONNAUGHT CEMETERY

Connaught Cemetery on the edge of Thiepval Wood on the Somme.
MILL ROAD CEMETERY
MILL ROAD CEMETERY

Mill Road Cemetery built over the Schwaben Redoubt a German strongpoint facing Thiepval Wood. Subsidence has meant that some of the headstones have to be laid flat.
DUDS
DUDS

Duds at Mansel Copse on the Somme. Eighty years on the Great War still yields its “iron harvest”.
MARTINSART
MARTINSART

Martinsart British Cemetery on the Somme. Plot 1, row A. A communal grave for men of 13 RIR killed by a single German shell on the 28 June 1916.
VIMY RIDGE TRENCHES
VIMY RIDGE TRENCHES

Vimy Ridge. Preserved trenches north of Arras.
YPRES CLOTH HALL
YPRES CLOTH HALL

The Cloth Hall at Ypres rebuilt after the War and passed by thousands on their way to and from the Salient through the Menin Gate.
MESSINES SPANBROEKMOLEN

MESSINES SPANBROEKMOLEN

Spanbroekmolen Mine Crater on the Messines Ridge now a “Pool of Rememberence”.

MCGURK-HS LAMBEG

JOHN McGURK’S HEADSTONE

The grave of John McGurk at Lambeg Parish Church. Wounded on the opening day of the Somme he died at home just over three weeks later aged 19.

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