CWGC - UK leaflet - 2023 - Northern Ireland
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Download our App<br />
and find <strong>CWGC</strong> sites of<br />
remembrance near you.<br />
NORTHERN<br />
IRELAND<br />
Download our App and find <strong>CWGC</strong> sites<br />
of remembrance near you. Available on<br />
Apple and Android devices.<br />
We honour and care for the men and women of<br />
the Commonwealth forces who died in the First<br />
and Second World Wars, ensuring they will never<br />
be forgotten. Funded by six Member Governments,<br />
our work began with building, and now maintaining,<br />
cemeteries and memorials at over 23,000 locations<br />
all over the world.<br />
Access our records and archives online<br />
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/<br />
See our specialist<br />
teams at work by<br />
visiting the <strong>CWGC</strong><br />
Visitors Centre near<br />
Arras, France<br />
Find out more about<br />
our charity.<br />
Visit:<br />
foundation.cwgc.org<br />
DISCOVER OUR RICH<br />
HERITAGE<br />
Across the United Kingdom there are war<br />
graves and memorials at over 12,000 locations.<br />
From towering and dramatic memorials<br />
which bear the names of tens of thousands of<br />
missing personnel, to small and intimate local<br />
churchyards where perhaps only one service<br />
person is commemorated, there is so much to<br />
discover.<br />
Across County Antrim, Armagh, Down,<br />
Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone the<br />
Commonwealth War Graves Commission<br />
(<strong>CWGC</strong>) commemorates more than 2,850 service<br />
personnel at over 400 locations.<br />
Access site tours, personal stories,<br />
archive documents, and find out about<br />
events near you by visiting<br />
www.cwgc.org/our-war-graves-your-history<br />
Speak to our<br />
knowledgeable<br />
guides at the Ieper<br />
Information Centre,<br />
Ieper, Belgium<br />
To find out more visit www.cwgc.org<br />
DISCOVER<br />
WORLD WAR HERITAGE<br />
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM<br />
DISCOVER LEARN REMEMBER
VISIT OUR HISTORIC SITES OF REMEMBRANCE<br />
DISCOVER CEMETERIES<br />
AND MEMORIALS ACROSS<br />
NORTHERN IRELAND<br />
NORTHERN<br />
IRELAND<br />
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WAR GRAVES IN<br />
NORTHERN IRELAND<br />
BELFAST CITY CEMETERY<br />
During both World Wars Belfast was an important<br />
hub of military activity. The port was busy with<br />
Merchant Navy and Royal Navy ships, and it was<br />
from here that many service personnel left <strong>Ireland</strong><br />
to serve overseas. Many of the service burials in<br />
this cemetery were made by local people who<br />
chose to lay their fallen loved one to rest here.<br />
Other burials came from one of several military<br />
hospitals which were established in the city.<br />
Today, this is the final resting place of almost 600<br />
Commonwealth service personnel, the largest<br />
number in <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Ireland</strong>.<br />
511 Falls Road, Belfast, BT12 6DE<br />
LONDONDERRY (DERRY) CITY CEMETERY<br />
Opened in 1853, this large Victorian cemetery is the<br />
final resting place of almost 200 Commonwealth<br />
service personnel who died during the World Wars.<br />
Many of these men and women were laid to rest<br />
here by their families who lived locally. Others died<br />
in military hospitals that were established in the city<br />
during both conflicts, or while based nearby at Royal<br />
Air Force airbases during the Second World War.<br />
Lone Moor Road, Londonderry, BT48 2LA<br />
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COUNTY<br />
FERMANAGH<br />
ENNISKILLEN<br />
COUNTY<br />
TYRONE<br />
OMAGH<br />
COUNTY<br />
LONDONDERRY<br />
ARMAGH<br />
COUNTY<br />
ARMAGH<br />
Just one burial was made here during the First<br />
World War, but during the Second World War the<br />
nearby waters of Lough Erne became a Royal Air<br />
Force Flying Boat training centre. A service plot<br />
was established in this churchyard and more than<br />
70 Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force<br />
personnel were laid to rest here.<br />
COUNTY<br />
ANTRIM<br />
BELFAST<br />
COUNTY<br />
DOWN<br />
IRVINESTOWN CHURCH OF IRELAND CHURCHYARD<br />
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26 Church Street, Irvinestown, Enniskillen, BT94 1EH<br />
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During both World Wars, men and women from<br />
across what is today the Republic of <strong>Ireland</strong> and<br />
<strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Ireland</strong> served with distinction in the<br />
British and Commonwealth armed forces and<br />
many made the ultimate sacrifice. They served<br />
in almost every theatre of both wars on land, at<br />
sea and in the air. Some served in Irish regiments<br />
of the British Army, such as the Royal Inniskilling<br />
Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles, and Connaught<br />
Rangers, while others served with the Royal Navy,<br />
Royal Air Force, and other auxiliary formations.<br />
As with Great Britain, the <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Ireland</strong> based<br />
families of those service personnel who died in<br />
<strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Ireland</strong> were able to lay their relative to<br />
rest where they wished, unlike men and women<br />
who died overseas. As such, today you will find war<br />
graves in many local churchyards and cemeteries<br />
in <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Ireland</strong>, with most containing less<br />
than five Commonwealth burials.<br />
Men of the Ulster Division celebrate their victory at<br />
Messines in Belgium, June 1917. © IWM Q 5495