Ballycastle, County Antrim






		Ballycastle, County Antrim

Ballycastle War Memorial is located at the lower end of Quay Road in a square opposite the Manor House and adjacent to the sea front, within sound of the waters of the River Moyle.
The memorial which takes the form of an obelisk of first quality Cecilian marble, with a spire seven feet (2.1m) high on which is worked a wreath, was unveiled by Mrs. Greer, widow of the late Senator T. M. Greer, D.L., Ballycastle.
The memorial was designed and constructed Mr. B.H. O’Connor, an ex-serviceman and vice-chairman of Ballycastle Urban Council
Following the unveiling Mr. O’Connor presented silver scissors to Mrs. Greer, who said that this stone of remembrance was set up as a permanent memorial to the valiant men, who at the call of King and Country went out on the outbreak of war to fight for them. They went out and endured untold hardships all day and night and through those desperate years. Some of them came back, but many also passed out of the sight of men, dying on the field of honour. On this stone they celebrated the name and fame of all those men from Ballycastle who answered the call of their country.On the cap is the inscription;

“To the glory of God and in memory of the brave men who gave their lives for freedom and justice

Captain Lyle read the names of the fallen from the parishes of Ramoan and Culfeightrim, which numbered fifty-five and are as follows:


	Royal Irish Rifles


	Lance-Corporal H. Blackmore, M.M. Private George Cochrane Private John Douthart Private John Gallagher Private George M’Cafferty Private Patrick M’Laughlin Private John M’Lean (see note below) Private Daniel M’Intosh Private John McLean Private James Norton Private James Parkhill Private John Simpson


	Private William Blackmore Private Alexander Dixon Private Thomas Gallagher Private Patrick Laverty Private Hugh M’Kendry Private William M’Mullan Private James M’Lean Private John M’Gowan Lance-Corporal Frank M’Larty, Croix De Guerre, M.M. Lieutenant Paul O’Kane Private Hugh Simpson Lance-Corporal Hugh Spence.

Connaught Rangers
Private R. Kilpatrick

Irish Guards
Lieutenant K. M. C. Greer	Sergeant George Collins

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Private Joseph Forsythe	Private Joseph Gillen
Lieutenant John Gage	Private James Jennings
Private Daniel Mooney

Royal Irish Fusilier
Lance-Corporal Hugh M’Auley	Private John Kiernan
Private Patrick M’Michael	Private James M’Gahey,
Private William Ross

Leinster Regiment
Private Robert Murphy

Royal Scots Regiment
Private Neal M’Bride

Royal Field Artillery
Private W. J. Dunlop	Private W. J. Dunlop
Major Wm. M’Gildowney, D.S.O.

Black Watch
Private Harry Dillon

Highland Light Infantry
Private J. Carruthers

Royal Navy
Stoker T. Collins

Australian Forces
Private David Rennie

Canadian Army
Private Harold Black	Lance-Corporal George M’Cormick

United States Army
Private P. Campbell	Private R. Mitchell,
Private Nathaniel M’Lean. (see note below)

New Zealand Rifles
Private James Laverty

Mercantile Marine
John Haughey

Information supplied by Helen L. Graeser (nee McLean)
My father was Nathaniel McLean born Capecastle, Ballycastle 1891 son of John and Lettitia McLean. He served in the USA Army during WWI, however, he never went overseas and was not killed. His name was added to the memorial by mistake. My grandmother was very upset by that and tried to have the name removed. There is a story about my Dad in Robert Thompson’s recent book Ballycastle Heroes.

My uncle John McLean was lost (Missing) on July 1, 1916 the first day of the Battle for the Somme

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