Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- Town
- Ballymena
- County
- Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: November 1924
Attended by: Major-General Sir Oliver Nugent KCB DSO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6387
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Current location
Near railway station
public park
Galgorm Road
Ballymena
Antrim
BT43 5EE
Northern Ireland
OS Grid Ref: NW 25348 60638
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Obelisk on three-stepped base, with bronze dedicatory plaque.
- Inscription
- 1914 - 1918/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ IN EVERLASTING MEMORY OF/ THE OFFICERS NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS/ AND MEN FROM THE/ BALLYMENA URBAN AND RURAL DISTRICTS/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE/ THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD/ AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE/ YEARS CONDEMN/ AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 491
Served and returned: 0
Died: 491
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Obelisk
- Condition
- Ballymena War Memorial
- WMO ID: 150338
- Condition: Good [last updated on 25-08-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Geograph www.geograph.ie/photo/352161
- Carter Postcard Collection
- Ulster War Memorials www.ulsterwarmemorials.net/html/ballymena_county_antrim.html
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