Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Town
- Downpatrick
- County
- Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- TOMMY HASTINGS (Mason)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 5th November 1925
Attended by: COL RIGHT HON VISCOUNT BANGOR OBE - Dedicated
Date: 5th November 1925, 3pm
Attended by: REV R M'ELNEY MA - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6347
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Current location
A25
Crossroads Of Strangford Road And Old Belfast Road
Downpatrick
Newry
Mourne and Down
Down
BT30 6SL
Northern Ireland
OS Grid Ref: SB 58500 99779
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- SOLDIER WITH RIFLE ON PLINTH. NAMES ON TABLETS ON PLINTH AND DECORATIVE LAUREL SPRAYS CARVED AT BASE OF PLINTH.
- Inscription
- IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF DOWNPATRICK/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR OTHERS/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)/ IN REMEMBRANCE OF/ THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 1945/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Black, James
Blayney, Bernard
Breen, William R G
Buchanan, James R
Carr, James
Clayton, Ernest A
Cleland, James
Clydedale, John A W
Clydesdale, Joseph
Cochrane, Jim
See details for all 67 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 67
Served and returned: 0
Died: 67
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 35
Served and returned: 0
Died: 35
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Figure
- Condition
- Downpatrick War Memorial
- WMO ID: 148371
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 11-10-2013]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 1996: NAME OF UDR SOLDIER KILLED BY IRA LANDMINE TO BE ADDED
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Ulster War Memorials www.ulsterwarmemorials.net/html/county_down.html
- Published:Down County Museum 2004 Downpatrick Memorials to the Great War in County Down 1914-1939, Jane Leonard
- Daily Telegraph NOV 2ND 1996
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