“Ballybeen remembers it’s [sic] fallen – to the memory and sacrifice of the brave young men from East Belfast who gave their lives with countless others at the Somme and other battles during the Great War 1914-18.” The Union flag and the Thiepval memorials serve as a backdrop for images of individual soldier and photographs of soldiers and nurses at work.
“Battle Of the Somme, 1st July 1916, 36th (Ulster) Division. ‘Their name liveth for evermore’ 8th battalion Royal Irish Rifles (East Belfast Volunteers. Albert, Messines, Cambrai, Thiepval, Passchendaele, Ooteghem, Bailleul, Picardy, St Quentin, Ypres, Somme, Courtrai, Kemel Ridge, Aarras, Rossieres, Langemarck.”
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