Lost Photos

update April 2011 ~ I have been contacted by direct descendants of John Campbell, John's niece May is still alive aged 87 and was absolutely thrilled to see a picture of her uncle John, he is now being remembered by a whole new generation of his family and has been added to the family information on Ancestry.co.uk ~ thank you to his great grand nephew and name-sake John Campbell for sending the photo of John Campbell's headstone - Mary

In Sad and Loving Memory of my Dear Husband
(6712) Rifleman John Campbell, 14th R.I.R., Y.C.V's,
Who died at Richmond Hospital, Dublin, on the 14th day of July, 1917, of wounds received in action at the Battle of Messines.
__________
Not dead to me, I loved him dear,
Not lost, but gone before,
He lives with me in memory still,
And will for evermore.
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Sadly missed by his loving Wife and little Son - Norah and Wellington Campbell
33½ William Street, Newtownards.

FRANCIS DUNBAR

340995 Pte. Francis Dunbar - Labour Corps
having previously served during the War in the Royal Irish Rifles
Served with honour and was disabled in the Great War
Honourably discharged on 29th June 1918
signed - George R. J.
Medals Index Card - http://tinyurl.com/3g7uzv
Royal Irish Rifles - 7260 - Private
Labour Corps - 340995 - Private

In loving Memory of Nurse Edith Cavell - May 15th 1919

MEMORIALS TO WW1 & WW2
FALLS ROAD METHODIST CHURCH

Site for Falls Road Methodist Church

1914 - 1919

Erected by this congregation in loving memory of the members who gave their lives in defence of King and Empire in the Great War

H. Barr
G. Barnes
Wm. A. Cunningham
W. Douey
E. Douey
M. Davis
W. Ewing
R. Fryer
H. McHenry

Wm. McIvor
H. B. Mitchell
H. T. Mitchell
E. Rowney
T. M. Robinson
J. Simpson
J. Thornberry
A. Weatherall
T. Willis

Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right Gen. XVIII - 25

THOSE WHO SERVED

1939 1945

THOSE WHO SERVED

James Bell
John Cameron
John Henry Clarke
Nathaniel Cush
Alexander Douglas
Helen Douglas
Robert Ewing
Fred Ewing
Sadie Glass
Jean Hamilton
Edward Horner
Rev. Gerald G. Myles

ERECTED BY THE CONGREGATION IN HONOURED AND CHERISHED MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS CHURCH WHO SERVED IN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES DURING THE WAR 1939 - 1945

THOSE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

Samuel Glass - Dawson Patterson
Sidney McIlroy - John Murdie

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them

Roy Hewitt
Thomas Higginson
Robert Kirkwood
Samuel Larmour
Winnie Lockhart
Robert Moore
Norman Nelson
Robert Nesbitt
Mima Rowntree
Willie Rowntree
Lily White

"NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE"

Memorial in Mesnil-Martinsart village to the 14 R.I.R. soldiers buried at Martinsart, killed by a stray shell

This Memorial is to commemorate the twenty-three men of number 11 Platoon of 'C' Company, the 13th battalion The Royal Irish Rifles (1st County Down Volunteers), who were killed or died later as the result of an enemy shell on the evening of 28th June 1916. Fourteen are buried in a mass grave in Martinsart British Cemetery (1.a.1.), five in Forceville Communal Extension and four in Puchevillers Military Cemetery
Beaston, James (Beatson) Bell, Thos. John Berry, Wm. John Brown, Thomas Burns, Arthur Carson, John Crangle, Albert Crawley, Richard Crossey, Oliver Dale, David Darragh, Wm. Frame, David Guiney, Stanley Hamilton, Samuel Harrison, Robert Heenan, George Jones, Alex. Ledgett, John Martin, Joseph Mercer, Thomas McCoy, Joseph Smith, John Thompson, Joseph	RSM Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Rfn Cpl CSM Rfn Rfn	1469 16230 17261 77 16280 87 17492 17379 16353 137 16425 16493 16537 16567 17839 17856 16641 16676 16867 16841 1470 18805 2370

Private Peter McCourt

In Memory of
Private P. McCOURT

27532, 7th/8th Bn., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
who died age 38 on 29 March 1918
Son of John and Elizabeth McCourt, of Belfast;
husband of Rose Ann McCourt, of 9, Hardinge St., North Queen St., Belfast.
(Mrs. Rosa McCourt, 29 Grosvenor Place - on back of 1 photo)
(Rose McCourt, 18 Ormond Street on another)
Remembered with honour
NAMPS-AU-VAL BRITISH CEMETERY Medals Index Card

Medal Index Card

1915 - 1917 BEF - Ypres Somme Arras

Wishing you a very happy Christmas & the best of luck in the new year
From: R. D. Richardson, G.S.M. 7th Northumberland Fusiliers
in the field, Christmas 1917

I'm not sure what this is, a swagger stick, a Lambeg Cane, I've heard many suggestions, I think its the first though
'Honi soit qui mal y pense' is on the top - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honi_soit_qui_mal_y_pense
and a tag attached says this belonged to someone called 'Weir'

The Royal Life Saving Society
Patron: His Most Gracious Majesty The King - President: The Right Hon. Lord. Desborough, K.C.V.O.

Certificate awarded to James A. Campbell, Wellington A.S.C. December 1917 for knowledge of Rescue, Releasing ones-self from the Clutch of the Drowning, also ability to render aid in Resuscitating the Apparently Drowned.

Chairman: Sydney J. Monks, Chairman - William Henry, Secretary

This is a silver lid off something, I removed the knob to get it in the scanner, it says...1914, S.V.P.A., Internationals 2nd Teams Won by English, 1. R. G. Rawson, 2. C. R. Fox, 3. A. W. Harrison,
and 4. F. Pullen

on back it says: Edward grave in France April 15
1st/6thBn. Gloucester Regiment, 15th April 1915 Serjeant E. M. Parsons, Service No. 2766, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Parsons, of Avonmouth, husband of C. C. Parsons, of Severn House, The Docks, Avonmouth CWGC Medals Index Card (I know he is not from Ireland but this photo was found at auction and I just wanted to give him a home.)

Private Von Boden (Bugler)

Can anyone make out who this card is from?

came with a note translated by Mike -
(back)
In the field 3/7 16 Field Postcard
Best wished to you and our fat medical orderly, sent from the field by your (illegible name)
To bugle player Private Von Boden, Hamburg 22, Apenstraße 3 III

(front)
Some of the pictures shot on the way have arrived. Would you want some? I am very well here and do not yet long for death (word difficult to decipher) at all.
1st Company Field Fortification Batallion 93
37th Infantry Division Osten

Paul Gilchrist Pollock

In loving memory of Paul Gilchrist Pollock, 14th Royal Irish Rifles (Y.C.V.)
son of rev. Dr. Pollock
Killed at the Somme 1st July 1916, aged 20 years.
"But no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day"

http://www.instgreatwar.com/page24.htm

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Duncairn/Antrim_Road/139339/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Duncairn_Ward/Antrim_Road/956812/

Rev. Dr. John Pollock

Elsie Alexander Pollock, Sister U.V.F. Hospital, Belfast, Daughter of Rev. John Pollock, Belfast

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/roh/rohdaughters.html

1910
Antrim Road
Glandore Park
441. Pollock, Rev. Jno. (minister of St. Enoch's Presbyterian Church)

1918
Carlisle Circus
Clifton Street to Crumlin Road
..........Clifton Street intersects
St. Enoch's Presbyterian Church - Minister, Rev. John Pollock, 7 Glandore Park

This is what the Memorial Stone looked like before it was cleaned, it is grey marble so it is still badly stained by the fire at St. Enoch's Church, it was to be scrapped except for the badge which was cut out of it, I assume the corner broke when it was thrown out. Thanks to Alan Curragh of the Great War Forum and the Inst in the Great War site Paul is now included on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site.