Belfast Cenotaph, City Hall Belfast.

The Belfast Cenotaph is located beside Donegall Square West in the grounds of the city hall. It is about thirty feet (9.5m) high with a background of a Colonnade about twenty-five feet high. On either side of the Cenotaph are ornamental cast bronze brackets. The laurel wreaths, symbolic of Victory and Honour, are boldly carved, and show up prominently. The carved attachments to the mouldings of the cornices and capitals are of a more delicate character. The lettering is engraved in Roman type. The inscription is:-

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.

They dedicated their lives to a great cause,

and their achievements by sea and

land and air won undying

fame.

FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH,

they are remembered with Pride and

Gratitude.

“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 V

“Their name liveth for evermore.”

Nearby is a memorial to the men of the Royal Irish Rifles who died in the Boar War. Amongst other memorials in the grounds of the City Hall is a memorial to the Titanic.

www.journeyofremembering.org

This is a new site, with a searchable database, for soldiers and Merchant seamen from Belfast who died in the Great War. The provisional database currently contains over 5,000 names and details. Additional information is requested.

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