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War Memorials and Battlefield Pilgrimages
Ulster, Ireland and the Somme tells the story of the relationship between Ulster, Ireland and the Somme area of northern France, which has now endured for nearly a century. The 1916 Battle of the Somme is a key event in Irish memory of the Great War, and thousands of people from both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic visit the area each year, but the history of the landscape and the memorials they see has never been told in any detail until now.
2nd July, 2016 in Biography & Memoir, Military
The following is extracted from Private 12768: Memoir of a Tommy, an account of life in the trenches by Private John Jackson. Jackson served on the Western Front from 1915 until the war’s end; he was present at Loos in 1917, on the Somme in 1916, in Flanders in 191…
17th December, 2015 in Military
A timeline of the events leading up to, and during, the Battle of the Somme 1916 1914 28 June — Assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo 28 July — Austria declares war on Serbia 29 July — Russia mobilises 1 August — Germany declares war on R…
