Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Coleraine
- Town
- Portstewart
- County
- Londonderry
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 11 November 1924
Attended by: Lady Craig (Later Viscountess Craigavon) - Dedicated
Date: 11 November 1924
Attended by: The Dean of Derry - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6181
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Current location
On sea front
west side of Promenade.
The Promenade
Portstewart
Coleraine
Londonderry
BT55 7AD
Northern Ireland
OS Grid Ref: NV 99708 98055
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Soldier with rifle standing on a plinth with name panels.
- Inscription
- (6 O'CLOCK FACE) TO THE/GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN/ GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE/ MEN OF PORTSTEWART/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918/ THEIR NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE/ (6 O'CLOCK FACE) THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES THE/ FOLLOWING WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945/ (NAMES)/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM/
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Bacon, Robert
Boyd, James
Burke, Robert J
Charles, John P
Finlay, Thomas J
Gatchell, Cecil J H
Gray, John
Hayes, James
Hayes, Thomas
Kane, James
See details for all 30 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 30
Served and returned: 0
Died: 30
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forname, surname
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forename, surname
Order of information: surname - Iraq War (2003-2011)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Limestone - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Memorial
Measurements: height 6000 mm
Materials: Unknown
- Plaque
- Condition
- Portstewart
- WMO ID: 158773
- Condition: Good [last updated on 21-09-2016]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Costs
Memorial: £800
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Colereine District Council
- Reference
- NORTHWEST ULSTER by ROWAN, A 461 Source: Image Library Published:PENGUIN BOOKS (BUILDINGS OF IRELAND) 1979
- Seamus Heaney poem: 'In Memoriam Francis Ledwige' (1979).
- Ulster War Memorials www.ulsterwarmemorials.net/html/portstewart_county_londonderr.html
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