Physical rights are retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley. Copyright is retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley.
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Loyalist mural, Northland St., West Belfast, 2011. Representation of 'The charge from Thiepval Wood 1st July 1916'; portrait above: Edward Carson; centre: insignia of 36th Ulster Division; street name unofficially changed to Thiepval Street; to left, UVF and YCV crests, 'Lest we forget I am not an Ulsterman but yesterday 1st. July as I followed their amazing attack I felt that I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world Captain Wilfred Spender The Somme 1916 In proud and loving memory of our fallen'; right: UVF and YCV crests, 'When the last war is waged, and the last post is played When the last boy is laid, and the last prayer is said When the last mother cries, and the last tear drop dries When the last son is gone, we'll now remember the Somme'; memorial stone, 'This stone is dedicated to the memory of the fallen volunteers of no. 5 platoon, a company 1st Belfast Battalion, Ulster Volunteer Force As poppy petals gently fall Remember us who gave our all Not in the mud of foreign lands Nor buried in the desert sands. In Ulster field and farm and town Fermanagh’s lanes and Drumlin’d down We died that violent death should cease And Ulstermen might live in peace; Lest we forget' Loyalist
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