Ref ID: 690

Title

Belfast's Homage to the Dead'


Description

Belfast Telegraph 1919 - Photographs of the minute's silence observed at 11am on Armistice Day: soldiers at Victoria Barracks and the workers at the coal quay in Belfast.


Theme

Commemoration

Additional Information

Throughout the war and in the immediate post-war period, people across the island of Ireland collected money for memorials to honour those who had died. Tabloids include the Belfast Telegraph, the Northern Whig and the Belfast News Letter. The clippings range from 1916 to 1922 and cover events such as the erection of monuments and memorials to those who died, memorial services, and rolls of honour listing the names of Ulster service men who went to war.


Date

1919


Classification

Photograph, Newspaper - Belfast Telegraph

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