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The main memorials to the Irish war dead, one in France and one in Belgium, are the Ulster Tower and the Island of Ireland Peace Park, unveiled in 1921 and 1998 respectively. Delville Wood Memorial (South Africa) Vimy Memorial (Canada) Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australia) Neuve-Chapelle Memorial (India) Beaumont-Hamel Memorial (Newfoundland)
Irish World War I propaganda recruitment poster, c. 1915, by Hely's Limited, Dublin. During World War I (1914–1918), Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which entered the war in August 1914 as one of the Entente Powers, along with France and Russia.
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Irish World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Irish people of World War I" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
He was assigned to the 8th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, and was posted with them to the Western Front. [4] During the Battle of Loos Doyle was caught in a German gas attack and for his conduct was mentioned in dispatches. [6] A recommendation for a Military Cross was rejected as "he had not been long enough at the front". [6]
A platoon of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, pictured upon the outbreak of the First World War, 1914. Lieutenant Harold Alexander is seated seventh from the right.. The 1st Battalion, Irish Guards deployed to France, eight days after the United Kingdom had declared war upon the German Empire, as part of 4th (Guards) Brigade of the 2nd Division, and would remain on the Western Front for the ...
Turtle Bunbury, The Glorious Madness, Tales of The Irish and The Great War; Kettle, Tom & Dalton, Emmet, Mad Guns and Invisible Wands (Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 2014), pp. 99–115, ISBN 978-0-7171-6234-5; Richardson, Neil David (2010). A coward if I return, a hero if I fall : stories of Irish soldiers in World War I. Dublin: O'Brien.
The Irish National War Memorial Gardens (Irish: Gairdíní Náisiúnta Cuimhneacháin Cogaidh na hÉireann) is an Irish war memorial in Islandbridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914–1918", [1] out of a total of 206,000 Irishmen who served in the British forces alone during the war.