Irish Great War Memorials

Portlaoise Pictures

Anyone with an interest in the above title, might like to have a look at
www.portlaoisepictures.com/warmemorial.htm

gobnaitolunacy

This memorial is out of bounds to the general public, only Bus Eireann employees based at Broadstone get to see it...

http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/html/showPicture.php?pictureID=1031

BowWow

This one is in Howth Yacht Club, Howth, Co. Dublin

LordSutch

This memorial is in Connolly Station, Dublin.
It commemorates all the employees of the Great Northern Railway who were killed or missing in World War I and World War II.

http://en.tracesofwar.com/upload/1742120306122223.JPG

http://en.tracesofwar.com/upload/5715120306122239.JPG

ShatterResistant

This is a First World War memorial for all those from Waterford who died, it just opened in the last few months. It's located adjacent to St. Johns Castle in Dungarvan.

Link: http://thedustbinofhistory.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/952/

Santa Cruz

I know that some individuals will complain about the publicity being given to these memorials but the reasons for young Irishmen joining up must be understood in the circumstances of that time not of 2013.
It is only right that they should be commemorated. There is a new memorial near the bridge in Fermoy commemorating those from the area that were lost in the Great War and also in Templemore there are memorials side by side commemorating the Great War dead and the War of Independence dead. Over the years I have come across a lot of memorials in graveyards either to individuals or group who died in the Great War. In the Cork Road Mallow cemetery I found a gravestone of a young Canadian Air Force member who died as a result of wounds received while flying missions protecting the Atlantic Convoys.

Santa Cruz

LordSutch wrote: »

This memorial is in Connolly Station, Dublin.
It commemorates all the employees of the Great Northern Railway who were killed or missing in World War I and World War II.

http://en.tracesofwar.com/upload/1742120306122223.JPG

http://en.tracesofwar.com/upload/5715120306122239.JPG[/QUOTE]
There is one in Hueston Station also on the wall as you go to Platform 2

johnny_doyle

photos of the Wanderers memorial at Lansdowne and of the 2 at Guinness.

Judgement Day

I spent the best part of six years (excluding school holidays) not more than 100 yards from these memorials http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/html/place-details.php?show=26 is it any wonder that I'm such a reactionary.

Santa Cruz

Judgement Day wrote: »

I spent the best part of six years (excluding school holidays) not more than 100 yards from these memorials http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/html/place-details.php?show=26 is it any wonder that I'm such a reactionary.

If commemorating or remembering the inhumanity of the Great War makes people reactionaries against any such slaughter in the future then they have done a good service

tac foley

Santa Cruz wrote: »

In the Cork Road Mallow cemetery I found a gravestone of a young Canadian Air Force member who died as a result of wounds received while flying missions protecting the Atlantic Convoys.

I would be very grateful to know who that young man might be.

tac
Héritage d'Erables/Maple Leaf Heritage

johnny_doyle

presume this chap

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2701366/WOODMAN,%20DOUGLAS%20ALBERT

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/virtualmem/Detail/2701366

If this is the chap, there is a write up by one of the surviving crew in Donal MacCarron's book Landfall Ireland

Jawgap

Douglas Albert Woodman

R/60047, 236 (R.A.F.) Sqdn., Royal Canadian Air Force who died on 24 October 1941 Age 23.

Son of Ezra A. and Hazel D. Woodman, of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

Mallow (St. Gobnaits') Cemetery, Goulds Hill.

More on Sgt Goodman is available from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial

According to the CWGC, there are 12 members of the Canadian Forces who served during WWII interred in cemeteries in the Republic of Ireland.

See attached file

Jawgap

He was on a Bristol Blenheim IV(F) (No V5728) that crashed off Long Island, near Schull following engine failure. The a/c was returning from convoy escort duty.

The other two crew members survived and were interned.

One later escaped from internment in April 1942 and was posted as missing, killed in action in Jul 1942.

The other was released and went on to win a DFC award.

Santa Cruz

tac foley wrote: »

I would be very grateful to know who that young man might be.

tac
Héritage d'Erables/Maple Leaf Heritage

The posters above have the name correct. Douglas Albert Woodman
Incidentally this cemetery caters for both Catholic and Protestants. There are a number of other military graves there though not necessarily of those killed in action

tac foley

Thank you all for your kindly efforts on my behalf. I really do appreciate it.

It's interesting to note that some of those buried in RoI are not airmen - I wonder how THEY got there?

tac

johnny_doyle

a slightly different WW1 memorial in Ireland to Brigadier General Shephard can be seen at the following link :

http://sjarchives.tumblr.com/post/34695672448/this-summer-the-conservation-of-the-yacht-asgard

pedroeibar1

tac foley wrote: »

It's interesting to note that some of those buried in RoI are not airmen - I wonder how THEY got there?

Tac,
If you sort the names in the list by ‘date of death’ five were killed on 30 April 1941. One of the five was a RCN Lieut., his ship given as S.S. Nerissa which was sunk by U-552 on that date. The others I guess were passengers on board.

Several bodies were washed ashore in Ireland during WW2. AFAIK all, regardless of nationality, were buried with full military honours.
P.

Jawgap

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

Tac,
If you sort the names in the list by ‘date of death’ five were killed on 30 April 1941. One of the five was a RCN Lieut., his ship given as S.S. Nerissa which was sunk by U-552 on that date. The others I guess were passengers on board.

Several bodies were washed ashore in Ireland during WW2. AFAIK all, regardless of nationality, were buried with full military honours.
P.

More info and passenger list can be found here

http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/895.html

There was also an British army major who was an Irish national on board. He survived the sinking.

tac foley

It wasn't so much the naval personnel who were eventually washed up on Irish beaches, I'm not too amazed at that, after all, there WERE already at sea in their rightful place; it was the soldiers...how did THEY get there?

tac

Jawgap

tac foley wrote: »

It wasn't so much the naval personnel who were eventually washed up on Irish beaches, I'm not too amazed at that, after all, there WERE already at sea in their rightful place; it was the soldiers...how did THEY get there?

tac

According to the website the Nerissa was a troopship

tac foley

Jawgap wrote: »

According to the website the Nerissa was a troopship

Ah, that explains it. Thank you.

tac

BowWow

tac -
You might find the following book of interest, if you haven't already got it.
Rgds..


Remembering the War Dead: British Commonwealth and International War Graves in Ireland since 1914
ISBN: 0-7557-7589-9
Author: Fergus A. D’Arcy
Publisher: The Government Stationery Office, for the Office of Public Works (OPW)

tac foley

Thanks, Bow-wow - no, I haven't got it. My Irish grandfather is buried in the Templeux-le-Guérard military communal cemetery extension, on the Somme.

You can check out if you care to -

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1

D/9947 Pte W V Collins 6th DG - 21-June-1917.

tac

bitemybanger

A new visitor center/museum was opened recently in Cathal Brugha barracks.
well worth a visit. some of the exhibits include Michael Collins's desk, his service pistol, the Tri-colour that was draped over his coffin as he was paraded during his funeral among many other memorials and exhibits.
Its in the old guard room which is where Francic Sheehy Skeffington was brought and held before being shot in the courtyard outside the guardroom along with two journalists.

Linky

boomchicawawa

Link to the new website of list of Irish who fell in WW1

: http://imr.inflandersfields.be/search.html

johnny_doyle

posted this memorial in the thread re naval mine in Waterford but probably worth reposting in this thread too

http://thenewwildgeese.com/profiles/blogs/tr-m-r-tragedy-of-1917