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Portrush, County Antrim
Portrush War Memorial is located on the Town Hall Green at the junction of Eglinton Street and Kerr Street.
The statue, which is a figure of Victory with sword in one hand and a palm branch in the other, is mounted on a pedestal of Irish granite at a cost of £1,300. The entire monument is 17 feet 5 inches (5.9m) in height, the height of the figure itself being 7 feet 6 inches (2.25m). On the front of the pedestal is a bronze tablet, with an engraving representing a sea scene with battleships in the foreground.
The inscription on the tablet is –
“To the brave men of this district who responded to duty’s call and helped to win the great war,
1914-1918,”
and on the base –
“The names inscribed hereon are of those from this town and district who at the call of King and Country left all that was dear to them, endured hardship, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own lives that others might live in freedom.”
On the other three sides of the memorial are engraved the names of the fallen. On the right and left of the cap stone are the inscriptions:
“Their name liveth for evermore” and “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
The monument was erected on the Town Hall green Portrush at the junction of Eglinton Street and Kerr Street.
Out of a population of 3,000 Portrush and district contributed 300 to the Empire’s forces during the war. The death roll was very heavy; seventy-five did not return.
The Names of the Fallen.Portrush,
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