
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- Fermanagh
- Town
- Enniskillen
- County
- Fermanagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 24 October 1922
Attended by: Lord Fitzalan
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6102
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Current location
Memorial is close to the Clinton Centre
Enniskillen
Belmore Street / East Bridge Street
Enniskillen
Fermanagh
Fermanagh
BT74
Northern Ireland
OS Grid Ref: NV 34120 08922
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Bronze WW1 soldier with bowed head and rifle reversed on a plinth with stepped base. Crossed rifles and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Badge on base of the plinth; an additional plinth has been added with eleven doves to commemorate the victims of the 1987 bombing
- Inscription
- OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1914-1918/ 1939-1945/
- Inscription legible?
- no
- Names on memorial
- Abbott, W E
Abercrombie, W J
Abraham, W J
Acheson, J
Allen, A
Allen, T
Allen, W
Anderson, J
Anderson, W C
Annesley, J P St J
See details for all 581 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 612
Served and returned: 0
Died: 612
Exact count: yes
Information shown: service, regiment,rank,surname,decorations
Order of information: as above - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Northern Ireland Conflict; The Troubles (1969-1998)
Total names on memorial: 11
Served and returned: 0
Died: 11
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Limestone - Steps
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Memorial
Measurements: depth 4000 mm, height 6000 mm, width 4000 mm
Materials: Unknown
- Figure
- Condition
- Enniskillen
- WMO ID: 136546
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 26-09-2016]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- c1990/1991: Refurbished and redesigned as a result of damage sustained in the 1987 bombing. Names recut; new plinth added with doves of peace; traffic surround widened and rebuilt in stone; names of those killed in bombing inscribed on surround. The memorial was heighted by 1000mm.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Manchester Genealogist Volume 46 No 3, 2010 pages 207-215. One of the men named is Lieutenant Loftus Reade of the Manchester Regiment. See The Manchester concerning his 538 letters about his time in the army from enlisting in 1901 to death in action on 29 Oct 1914, now at Tameside Archives. Has much detail about the work of the 1st Batallion during these years. This article is but a summary of this unique and valuable archive
- Carter Postcard Collection
- Illustrated London News 4 Nov. 1922 p.704
- Sunday Telegraph November 9th 1997
- AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN: BRITISH FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIALS by BOORMAN, DEREK 86,87 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:SESSIONS 1988 YORK
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