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Belfast Cenotaph

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55: 48: 41: 33: 108:, symbolising victory and honour. It bears several inscriptions: on the north side: "PRO DEO / ET / PATRIA // ERECTED BY / THE CITY / OF / BELFAST / IN MEMORY OF / HER / HEROIC SONS / WHO MADE / THE SUPREME / SACRIFICE / IN / THE GREAT WAR / 1914–1918 // THROUGHOUT THE LONG YEARS OF STRUGGLE WHICH / HAVE NOW SO GLORIOUSLY ENDED THE MEN OF ULSTER / HAVE PROVED HOW NOBLY THEY FIGHT AND DIE / GEORGE R.I." and on the south face: "THEY DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO A GREAT CAUSE AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS BY LAND, SEA AND AIR WON UNDYING FAME". 396: 463: 448: 180: 453: 409: 400: 375: 350: 127: 293: 458: 104:
monument about 30 feet (9.1 m), with bronze brackets on either side supporting flagpoles. The top of the monument has carved
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on 11 November 1929. No Catholic organisations participated in the formal unveiling ceremony, but veterans from the
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Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War
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laid a wreath after the ceremony ended, and participated the following year.
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The monument stands on three steps. To the south is an arc of paired
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The memorial was completed in 1927 and was officially unveiled by
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Nearby are memorials to the service of Irish regiments in the
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services, there are also annual ceremonies to remember the
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The Cenotaph, Belfast




war memorial
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Donegall Square
Belfast City Hall
Alfred Brumwell Thomas
cenotaph
listed building
Portland stone
laurel wreaths
Corinthian
colonnade
Field of Remembrance
Viscount Allenby
16th (Irish) Division
Remembrance Sunday
first day of the Battle of the Somme
Sinn Féin
Lord Mayor of Belfast
Alex Maskey
Boer War
Korean War
List of public art in Belfast
List of Grade A listed buildings in County Antrim
"Belfast Field Of Remembrance"

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