Day 9 & 10 – Remembrance Month Battle of the Somme – Centenary – 2016 click here
The Battle of the Somme - The 36th (Ulster) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Lord Kitchener's New Army, formed in September 1914. Originally called the Ulster Division, it was made up of mainly members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, who formed thirteen additional battalions for three existing regiments: the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The division served from October 1915 on Western Front as a formation of the British Army during the Great War. The division's insignia was the Red Hand of Ulster. The Ulster Volunteers were a unionist militia founded in 1912 to block Home Rule for Ireland. In 1913 they organised themselves into the Ulster Volunteer Force to
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Battle of the Somme – Centenary – 2016
In 2016 it was 100 years since The Battle of the Somme. Amazing volunteers stage a re-enactment of the Battle in Woodvale Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDjr3jKcNIk
Shankill Road – Christmas 2022
Kudos to the Organizers of this event...Shankill Road was chocker blocked!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0_dzyG2iE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw4e8D5EJlA
