Bessbrook

Bessbrook, County Armagh.

Bessbrook War Memorial is located in Charlemont Square in the middle of the village.

The memorial, on which are the names of 86 men of the village who made the supreme sacrifice, takes the form of an obelisk. It is over 17 feet (5.75m) tall and is made from white marble and Newry granite and occupies a central site in the village.

The massive base, check and chamber, with patent axed finish supports a richly molded base and deeply paneled die with the top of octagonal and four sides enhanced with graceful swags of carving. Supporting the die is a beautifully draped spire with central shield bearing in relief the dates 1914-18.

410 men from Bessbrook and district joining up. Many of these young men in the pride of their youth left that happy and peaceful country village and everything that was near and dear to them to answer the call of their King and Country in the time of danger, and of that 410 men, 86 never returned.

At the end of the ceremony at the request of Dr. O’Connor, representing the War Memorial Committee, the Chairman, on behalf of the Bessbrook Spinning Co. accepted the custodianship of the memorial.

To Bear to Succeeding Generations the Names of the Men of Bessbrook and District who Fell in the Great War, And as a Testimony to their Noble Sacrifice.

“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.”

THE NAMES OF THE FALLEN

Beattie, James	Beattie, Alexander	Best, Henry James	Black, William
Blakely, James	Birdie, Joseph	Boyle, James	Boyle, Thomas
Brady, Andrew	Brown, James	Burke, John	Burns, Samuel
Caldwell, George	Chambers, Bernard	Chambers, John	Chambers, Joseph
Clarke, William	Connolly, Patrick	Connolly, Patrick	Connolly, Thomas
Devaney, Joseph	Donnelly, Willia	Doran, Peter	Dunwoody, John
Egan, Michael	Freeburn, George	Feehan, James	Feighan, Michael James
Flood, Robert S.	Graham, Joseph	Gray, Edmond	Green, Harold
Glass, Joseph	Hamilton, Thomas	Hanna, William	Hanna, William
Hanna, Samuel	Harvey, John	Hennings, George	Hughes, Thomas
Kearney, Michael	Kennedy, Harry	Knott, F.W.	Lavelle, Thomas John
Lundy, Samuel	Marron, James	Lavelle, Thomas John	Moody, William Thomas
McCabe, John Francis	McCambly, James	McCann, James	McCulla, James
McCullough, Johnston	McGeown, Michael J.	McConnell, Hugh	McConville, James
McCourt, John	McCourt, Michael J.	McCoy, Francis	McKenna, Patrick
McKinstry, James	McKnight, John	McLoughlin, Thomas	Morton, Charles
Porter, Hugh	Quinn, John	Regan, John	Robb Michael
Robinson, Isaac	Roy, Samuel	Roy, William John	Ryan, John
Selby, Joseph	Sharpe, William James	Sinton, Edwin	Smith, Patrick
Sterritt, Hugh	Stuart, Rev. Alexander	Taylor, William	Thompson, William James
Thorpe, Harold	Toner, John	Toner, Joseph
White, John	Williamson, William	Wills, Patrick

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