Ref ID: 776
Title
Irish Rugbymen at Cenotaph'
Description
Belfast Telegraph 1921 - Photograph of Captain W.P. Hinton, president of the Irish Rugby Football Union, laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in memory of Irish Rugby men who fell in the war.
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
1921
Classification
Photograph, Newspaper - Belfast Telegraph
