Ulster tower in the Somme - vintage version
by Weston Westmoreland
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Ulster tower in the Somme - vintage version
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Weston Westmoreland
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Ulster tower in the Somme. Vintage version.
View of the Ulster Tower Memorial and Mill Road Cemetery on the horizon.
The Ulster Tower is Northern Ireland's national war memorial. It stands in the village of Thiepval, near the Thiepval Memorial, where so many lives were lost. It commemorates the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division and all those from Ulster who served in the First World War.
The memorial is a very close copy of Helen's Tower, near Bangor, Northern Ireland. Many of the men of the Ulster Division trained in the estate before moving to England and then France early in 1916. This is the place were the division fought in the Big Push, the big scale attack of the battle of the Somme. The casualties suffered by the 36th Division on 1 July totaled over 5,000.
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September 18th, 2016
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