Bessbrook

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Reference WMO/156215

Address:

Charlemount Square

Bessbrook

BT35 7AF

Northern Ireland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Bessbrook War Memorial is located in Charlemont Square in the middle of the village.The memorial, on which are the names of 86 men of the village who made the supreme sacrifice, takes the form of an obelisk. It is over 17 feet (5.75m) tall and is made from white marble and Newry granite and occupies a central site in the village. The massive base, check and chamber, with patent axed finish supports a richly molded base and deeply paneled die with the top of octagonal and four sides enhanced with graceful swags of carving. Supporting the die is a beautifully draped spire with central shield bearing in relief the dates 1914-18. 410 men from Bessbrook and district joining up. Many of these young men in the pride of their youth left that happy and peaceful country village and everything that was near and dear to them to answer the call of their King and Country in the time of danger, and of that 410 men, 86 never returned. At the end of the ceremony at the request of Dr. O’Connor, representing the War Memorial Committee, the Chairman, on behalf of the Bessbrook Spinning Co. accepted the custodianship of the memorial.
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To Bear to Succeeding Generations the Names of the Men of Bessbrook and District who Fell in the Great War, And as a Testimony to their Noble Sacrifice. “They shall grow not 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.” THE NAMES OF THE FALLEN

Beattie, James Beattie, Alexander Best, Henry James Black, William Blakely, James Birdie, Joseph Boyle, James Boyle, Thomas Brady, Andrew Brown, James Burke, John Burns, Samuel Caldwell, George Chambers, Bernard Chambers, John Chambers, Joseph Clarke, William Connolly, Patrick Connolly, Patrick Connolly, Thomas Devaney, Joseph Donnelly, Willia Doran, Peter Dunwoody, John Egan, Michael Freeburn, George Feehan, James Feighan, Michael James Flood, Robert S. Graham, Joseph Gray, Edmond Green, Harold Glass, Joseph Hamilton, Thomas Hanna, William Hanna, William Hanna, Samuel Harvey, John Hennings, George Hughes, Thomas Kearney, Michael Kennedy, Harry Knott, F.W. Lavelle, Thomas John Lundy, Samuel Marron, James Lavelle, Thomas John Moody, William Thomas McCabe, John Francis McCambly, James McCann, James McCulla, James 1939-45 War Albert Bell, David Bell, Patrick Clarke, W Donaldson, Morgan Foster, Beatrice Dowling, George Gray, Francis Mulligan, William McMurray, Ernest McNeill, Peter Rooney Lawlor Smith, Stanley Thompson, E Thornberry, Joseph Weir

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