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THE ORIGINAL LISBURN
WAR MEMORIAL
Erected in Market Square in 1919 this temporary
memorial stood roughly on the spot now occupied
by Nicholson’s statue. |
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LISBURN WAR MEMORIAL
Situated in Castle Street the memorial commemorates
266 men from the town who died during he
Great War. Along with those named on the
memorials at Hilden and Hillsborough, this
was the original source for the “Casualty
List”. |
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THE
ULSTER TOWER, THIEPVAL, FRANCE
Erected in 1921on the site of the German
front line positions opposite Thiepval
Wood on the Somme, the Tower commemorates
those in the 36 Ulster Division and Ulstermen
in other units who died in the Great War.
It is a replica of Helen’s Tower
at Clandeboye close to where units of
the 36 Division trained. |
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THIEPVAL MEMORIAL,
FRANCE
The Thiepval Memorial, the memorial to the
missing of the Somme, bears the names of more
than 72,000 officers and men who died in the
sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known
grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died
between July and November 1916. |
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POZIERES MEMORIAL,
FRANCE
This memorial lies to the southwest of the
village of Pozieres on the main road from
Albert to Bapaume. It commemorates over
14,000 casualties who have no known grave
and who died on the Somme between 21 March
and the 7 August 1918. This includes the
period of crisis in March and April when
the Fifth Army was driven back across the
area, and the months that followed before
the Allied counter-attack which began on
the 8 August. |
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THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL,
YPRES, BELGIUM
The Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres is one of
four memorials to the missing from the fighting
in the Ypres Salient which stretched from
Langemarck in the north to Ploegsteert Wood
in the south. The site as chosen because of
the hundreds of thousands of men who passed
through it on their way to the front. The
Memorial bears the names of more than 54,000
officers and men who died in the area before
16 August 1917 and whose graves are not known. |
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TYNE COT MEMORIAL,
BELGIUM
The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing is
located 9 kilometres north east of Ypres
just below the village of Passchendaele
which marks the most eastwardly point of
the Ypres Salient before the final Allies
advance in 1918. It forms the north-eastern
boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery and bears
the names of almost 35,000 officers and
men whose graves are not known. |
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PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL,
BELGIUM
The Ploegsteert Memorial lies 3 kilometres
south of Messines on the southern edge of
the Ypres Salient. It commemorates more than
11,000 servicemen who died in the lower part
of the salient as well as the area below it,
and have no known grave. |
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LE
TOURET, FRANCE (LEFT) AND
LOOS, FRANCE (RIGHT) MEMORIALS
The Le Touret and Loos Memorials to the
missing contain the names of many of the
1914 and 1915 casualties who have no known
grave.
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