Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Photos of Irish War Memorials

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Ballinakill, Co. Laois
    1798 Memorial



    sigpic
    Say NO to violence against Women

    Originally posted by hedgehog
    My favourite moment was when the
    Originally posted by hedgehog
    red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

    Comment


    • St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

      I took these in St Patrick's Cathedral at the weekend. Sorry about the quality, it was dark in there.






      King's Royal Irish Hussars Boer War Memorial






      King's Royal Irish Hussars World War 1 Memorial





      Colours laid up in the Cathedral




      Lt King Memorial
      sigpic
      Say NO to violence against Women

      Originally posted by hedgehog
      My favourite moment was when the
      Originally posted by hedgehog
      red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

      Comment


      • St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin continued

        sigpic
        Say NO to violence against Women

        Originally posted by hedgehog
        My favourite moment was when the
        Originally posted by hedgehog
        red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

        Comment


        • St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin continued



          6th Lancers Memorial



          Pinfield Memorial



          RAMC Memorial



          South Irish Horse Memorial

          sigpic
          Say NO to violence against Women

          Originally posted by hedgehog
          My favourite moment was when the
          Originally posted by hedgehog
          red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

          Comment










          • Royal Irish Regiment Memorial

            sigpic
            Say NO to violence against Women

            Originally posted by hedgehog
            My favourite moment was when the
            Originally posted by hedgehog
            red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

            Comment


            • Found this gravestone in Templemichael Graveyard outside Youghal, its on Ballynatray estate. I came accross it a few years ago and it had been cleaned up and had a poppy wreath laid on the grave. Its gotten a bit shabby again in the last few years.

              I wonder how a Londoner who had obviously been in the great war came to be buried here.



              Comment


              • Originally posted by backsturd View Post
                I wonder how a Londoner who had obviously been in the great war came to be buried here
                It's not obvious. I searched for his medal card and there wasn't one.
                Last edited by WES; 11 March 2010, 12:40.
                The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
                (George Bernard Shaw, Playwright, 1856 - 1950)

                Comment


                • Originally posted by backsturd View Post
                  I wonder how a Londoner who had obviously been in the great war came to be buried here.
                  The Buffs 1st Bn, was stationed in the area during the War of Independence. But it's also possible he was a local man, the address is that of his wife at the time that the CWGC was compiling its records.

                  There's a family tomb on the other side of that cemetery that commemorates WW2 casualties. Burma I think.
                  sigpic
                  Say NO to violence against Women

                  Originally posted by hedgehog
                  My favourite moment was when the
                  Originally posted by hedgehog
                  red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

                  Comment


                  • Originally posted by Groundhog View Post
                    The Buffs 1st Bn, was stationed in the area during the War of Independence. But it's also possible he was a local man, the address is that of his wife at the time that the CWGC was compiling its records.

                    There's a family tomb on the other side of that cemetery that commemorates WW2 casualties. Burma I think.
                    Yes that's probably one of the Holroyd-Smyths or the Ponsonbys, they owned Ballynatray estate which Tempemichael Church and cemetery was a part of. No doubt they would have served with the British Army back through the years.

                    http://www.turtlebunbury.com/history...oyd_smyth.html

                    Comment


                    • Originally posted by techman1 View Post
                      today is the 87th anniversary of my great uncles death, rip Gus
                      Another year passes by, rip Gus

                      Comment


                      • No photo. but came across a plaque at the entrance to the church in the Royal Hospital
                        Kilmainham to the Officers and Men of the "Heavy Camel Corps' Sudan"

                        Comment




                        • An interesting find in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Clonmel.

                          Cathleen Fitzgerald Lost at Sea 12th February 1944

                          When I looked up the CWGC Debt of Honour database I found Catherine Mary Fitzgerald, daughter of Richard and Ann Fitzgerald, of Douglas, Co. Cork. Cathleen was a Nursing Sister in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, service number 274636. She died aged 30 and is officially commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial in Surrey.

                          The memorial commemorates 3,500 men and women of the land forces of the Commonwealth who died during the Second World War and have no known grave. The circumstances of their death being such that they could not appropriately be commemorated on any of the local campaign memorials. For example soldiers who died in Norway in 1940, in raids on Nazi-occupied Europe. Included are people who died at sea, in hospital ships and troop transports, in waters not associated with the major campaigns. Cathleen Fitzgerald is one of these.

                          Cathleen was one of a group of nurses on a troop convoy sailing from Mombasa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon-modern day Sri Lanka. The convoy, code-named KR-8, sailed on 6th Feb 1944 and consisted of five troop ships- the Khedive Ismail, City of Paris, Varsova, Ekma and Ellenga. The convoy was escorted by a heavy cruiser HMS Hawkins and 2 destroyers- HMS Petard and Paladin. Cathleen was aboard the Khedive Ismail along with over 1500 others including 996 men of the 301st Field Regt, East African Artillery, 178 ship’s crew, 270 Royal Navy personnel, 56 members of the QAIMNS, 19 Wrens and 9 members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.

                          Early in the afternoon of Feb 12th, as the convoy sailed through the One and a Half Degree Channel south west of the Maldives, the convoy was attacked by a Japanese submarine, the I-27, commanded by Lt-Cdr Toshiaki Fukumura. He fired two torpedos at the Khedive Ismail, sinking the ship in two minutes. Immediately after firing his torpedos, the I-27 dived beneath the survivors swimming in the water. The two British destroyers raced in to attack the submarine with Paladin lowering boats to pick up survivors. Petard fired depth charges into the water. On her third run the Petard forced the submarine to the surface where she was rammed by Paladin and sunk by a torpedo from Petard . Of the 100 crew aboard the submarine only one survived.

                          The fate of the personnel onboard the Khedive Ismail was equally grim. 1,220 men and 77 women died in the sinking and quite probably as a result of the subsequent battle. It was the third worst allied maritime disaster of WW2 and the worst loss of Commonwealth female service personnel. Amongst the dead was Nursing Sister Cathleen Fitzgerald.

                          Other Irish Nurses who died

                          Sister Gertrude Dervan, Loughrea, Co. Galway.
                          Sister Beatrice Dowling, Belfast
                          Sister Mary Farrelly, Oldcastle, Co. Meath
                          Sister Maggie Kells, Milltown, Co. Cavan
                          Sister Winifred Kells, Milltown, Co. Cavan
                          Last edited by Groundhog; 8 May 2010, 08:56.
                          sigpic
                          Say NO to violence against Women

                          Originally posted by hedgehog
                          My favourite moment was when the
                          Originally posted by hedgehog
                          red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

                          Comment


                          • Fascinating history GH. THanks for the effort in posting
                            "The Question is not: how far you will take this? The Question is do you possess the constitution to go as far as is needed?"

                            Comment


                            • Mayo Peace Park and Garden of Remembrance, opened Oct 2008 in Castlebar, remembers all Mayo's war dead regardless who they fought for. The main wall lists the known Great War dead, smaller walls and benches about the park list or remember those who fought in other wars, some are dedicated to individual armies/regiments/UN service/etc and some to individuals. Its well worth a visit.



                              Comment


                              • Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                                I am told he was a keen sportsman, and like the rest of the family, Kept Greyhounds for coursing, and the base of the monument is guarded by four stone Greyhounds.......

                                There is no window here. Some say the monument is incomplete.
                                Found this today when cleaning out a drawer. It's from the Nationalist sometime in 1996 and I thought it would be of interest to Goldie in particular.

                                sigpic
                                Say NO to violence against Women

                                Originally posted by hedgehog
                                My favourite moment was when the
                                Originally posted by hedgehog
                                red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

                                Comment

                                Working...
                                X