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	The 36th (Ulster) Division, 1914-1918
		In September 1914, the Ulster Division was formed from the Ulster Volunteer Force which raised thirteen battalions for the three Irish regiments based in Ulster; the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Royal Irish Rifles.
		The Ulster Division was one of them: it captured and held for a considerable time the Schwaben Redoubt, despite virtually no progress being made by either Division on its flanks.
		The Second Army, of which the Ulster Division was currently a part, arranged for two overwhelming advantages in the attack, the purpose of which was to capture the long ridge running south from Ypres to Armentieres, through the villages of Wytschaete and Messines.
	www.1914-1918.net /36div.htm (2174 words)

	The 36th (Ulster) Division \| Their role in the Great War 1914-1918
		On November the 27th the Ulster Divisional Artillery, so called at that date to distinguish it from the London Territorial Artillery, which was known as the 36th Divisional Artillery, landed at Havre, and joined the Division in the area east of Abbeville.
		On arrival in the 4th Division area two of its battalions, the 8th and 15th Rifles, were transferred to the 10th and 11th Brigades respectively, while in exchange it received three battalions, the 1st Rifle Brigade, 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, and 2nd Monmouths.
		The first raid carried out by the Division was on May the 7th, and, by an extraordinary coincidence, that night was also chosen by the enemy to raid the troops of the 32nd Division on its right, at a point about 200 yards west of that of the British raid.
	www.freewebs.com /denbob/ulsterdivfrance.htm (6624 words)

	History of the Royal Irish Rangers The 36th Ulster Division
		At Thiepval Wood where the Ulster Division attacked the distance to the first line of German trenches was about 500 yards with a further 400 to the notorious Schwaben Redoubt.
		However, the soldiers of the Ulster Division were pleased - July 1st was the original date of the Battle of the Boyne.
		This is the Ulster Tower, built as an almost exact replica of Helen's Tower in Clandeboye Estate near Bangor in County Down where many of the soldiers of the Ulster Division trained.
	www.royalirishrangers.co.uk /somme3.html (5346 words)

	Formation of the Ulster Division
		(Ulster) Division was swiftly raised, three infantry brigades being formed on a territorial basis from the regimental areas of the U.V.F to become battalions of the existing provincial infantry regiments.
		(Ulster) Division, the ridges on either side of the River Ancre (a tributary of the Somme) north of the village of Thiepval including the supposedly impregnable Schwaben Redoubt.
		In March 1916 the sector of the front held by the Ulster Division was extended to cover an area south of the river called Thiepval Wood.
	www.irishsoldier.org /ulster_division.html (1246 words)

	THE36TH
		The 36th Ulster Division were born in 1914 as a direct appeal for people to join the war in France.
		The 36th Ulster Division were chosen to attack north of Thiepval, along the ridges of the River Ancre and the 'impregnable' Schwaben Redoubt.
		Almost every family in Ulster mourned it's dead in the aftermath of the Somme and to this very day and forever we will remember the valiant 36th Ulster Division and others who defended Ulster amidst the poppy fields of France.
	www.geocities.com /UNCLE_ANDY_IN_DA_HOUSE/THE36TH.html (474 words)

	HISTORY OF ULSTER
		Ulster is not to be confused with the English province; it was under Elizabeth the First that the Provinces were drawn up as administrative boundaries.
		Many who came to Ulster were from Scotland who were, not displacing the natives, but returning to the land of their ancient forefathers.
		Ulster people were in the vanguard of the inception of the new nation.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/ulster_explained/history.htm (1175 words)

	The 36th Division & its part in the Great War
		The next day the division was withdrawn from the front and moved to the area around St. Omer where it regrouped, received large numbers of fresh soldiers to replace those killed or wounded, and made ready for its next engagement - the Battle of Messines.
		The 36th Division joined the Second Army under General Plumer - a senior officer old-fashioned in appearance but with the deserved reputation both for meticulous battle preparation, and, in what had become a war of attrition, a keen regard for the saving of the lives of the men under his command.
		Julien the division there was so badly battered and its soldiers so tired that it was decided to withdraw them and replace them much earlier than expected with the Ulster Division.
	dnausers.d-n-a.net /dnetDkjs/36art01.htm (2178 words)

	Canada & World War One - the First Contingent
		On the left of the 36th was the 29th Imperial Division, which had covered itself with glory at Gallipoli, and on the right was the 32nd Imperial Division.
		Grandcourt was reached by a remnant of the battered division but this handful of men were unable to hold on to their gain; night fell and in the night the retirement was made.
		The truth is, however, that the Divisional Artillery of the Ulsters did their work thoroughly, but the same could not be said of the artillery at the right and left; wires were there left uncut, and thus the infantry at the right and left of the Ulsters could not get through.
	groups.msn.com /CanadaWorldWarOnetheFirstContingent/u.msnw (1291 words)

	The Ulster-Scots Part 1. @ lol513.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, Ulster was sometimes still ruled by a Cruthinic king, either with the consent of the Ulaid, or through force.
		His exploits fighting "the men of Ireland" are certainly at least exaggerated, but Ulster did fight wars to preserve her independence from Southern aggressors.
		Although Northern O'Neill kings were slain in 565 and 628, Ulster's resistance to the Gaels received a near mortal blow at Moira in 637, and Dalriada lost its lands in Ulster after siding with the vanquished.
	www.lol513.com /lol513ulster.html (863 words)

	Irish Battallions - RDF Major Battles
		Of the regular army, the 29th Division, including the 1st Battalions of the Royal Dublin, Munster and Inniskilling Fusiliers, was selected for the offensive.
		The bombardment of German lines, supposed to annihilate the enemy, stopped on July 1st and the 36th (Ulster) advanced across no-man's land and were met by machine-gunfire.
		The 1st Dublins were sent to the 29th Division, the 2nd and later the 7th RDF joined the 31st Division.
	www.greatwar.ie /ire_batmb.html (1706 words)

	Irish Battalions
		Ulster and Southern Irish regiments fought side by side and high regard for the courage demonstrated was mutual.
		Poet and Nationalist M.P., Tom Kettle, wrote to his wife that if he survived, he would devote himself to the reconciliation of Ulster with Ireland, having witnessed the comraderie of these brothers-in-arms.
		The British soldiers' uniform was 1902 service dress: gray collar-less undershirt, a 5-button tunic with closable collar, straight trousers held up by suspenders, leg wraps to be wound from ankle to calf, a trenchcoat, a trenchcap and a leather jerkin for cold weather.
	www.greatwar.ie /ire_bat.html (694 words)

	Defence Internet \| Defence News \| Men of Ulster remembered at the Somme
		The Ulster Tower was erected in 1921 close to the site of one of the 36th (Ulster) Division's initial objectives on 1 July 1916, the Schwaben Redoubt - considered the most heavily fortified part of the entire German line.
		The 36th (Ulster) Division was the only division in the British Army's 10th Corps to reach all of its objectives on 1 July 1916, including the village of Grandcourt beyond the German third line of defence.
		At the entrance to the Ulster Tower is a plaque which commemorates the nine members of the Ulster Division who were awarded the Victoria Cross for their actions during the Battle of the Somme.
	www.mod.uk /DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/MenOfUlsterRememberedAtTheSomme.htm (987 words)

	Ulster-Scots & Irish Unionist Resource - 36th Ulster Division - UVF - Ulster Volunteers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baldwin 1902 - 1940 (1978) John Ramsden observes that Ulster Unionists demonstrated the reality of their loyalty to the Crown from the first days of the war with the speed with which they rallied to the flag in 1914 and the gallantry with which the died on the Somme in 1916.
		Outside Belfast, anticipating the formation of the Ulster Division, Ambrose Ricardo had raised two companies from the Tyrone UVF, which were to become the nucleus of the 9th Battalion of the Royal Irish Inniskilling Fusiliers.
		However, with the exception of the divisional artillery, the Ulster Division, representing' the cream of the UVF, was overwhelmingly Unionist (and Protestant) in its composition.
	www.ulster-scots.co.uk /docs/terrorism/ulsterdiv.htm (3024 words)

	World War One Battlefields : The Somme : Ulster Tower (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ulster Tower is a memorial to the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division.
		The 107th Brigade supported them, but although the men of the 36th Division held out for the day the Germans mounted counterattacks, and as their stocks of bombs and ammunition dwindled many fell back, with small parties remaining in the German front lines.
		This map (made by the 16th RIR Pioneer Battalion of the 36th Ulster Division) shows the wood as it was in June 1916, and the circles near the front line were gas cylinders, in four sets of four, ready for use in the attack on the 1st of July.
	www.ww1battlefields.co.uk /somme/ulstertower.html (2232 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| The Somme: The Irish in the battle
		Tattered and traumatised, the Ulster Division withdrew from the battlefield to re-group and march directly into the political mythology of Ulster Unionism.
		Their "blood sacrifice" was seen as Ulster's side of a deal in which Britain would somehow "see the loyal province right" in the agonising over Home Rule which was sure to resume when the fighting was done.
		The men of the 16th Division fought with the same reckless courage that had distinguished the 36th Division - their sacrifice separated only by a few months, a few miles, and hundreds of thousands of casualties.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/5126128.stm?ls (961 words)

	One of the finest shows of courage in all of history - Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums
		The advance of the 36th (Ulster) Division at the commencement of the Battle of the Somme on July 1,1916, when they sustained 5,500 casualties, is perhaps the most memorable single episode of the war and stands as one of the finest displays of courage in the history of mankind.
		THE 36th (Ulster) Division was extremely fortunate in its official historian because Cyril Falls was to become one finest British military historians of the 20th century.
		He organised the selection of the Fermanagh delegates to the Ulster Unionist Convention of 1892, was involved in organising the signing of the Ulster Covenant in the county in 1912 and was the commander of the 3rd battalion of the Fermanagh Regiment of the UVF.
	www.scotchirish.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=2442 (11699 words)

	Irish Tourist Board - Ireland of the Welcomes Magazine
		The 36th Division, which consisted mainly of Ulster Volunteers, was in the centre of the British line and made rapid progress, capturing the reputedly impregnable Schwaben Redoubt, the strongest point in the German line.
		In the summer of 1917, both the 16th and 36th Divisions fought shoulder to shoulder in a fearful battle to capture the German fortress at Messines.
		The men of the 36th (Ulster) Division trained in its shadow and, in 1921, a replica, known as the Ulster Memorial Tower, was erected opposite Thiepval Wood from where the 36th advanced on 1 July 1916.
	www.irelandofthewelcomes.com /articles/article.asp?id=276 (1166 words)

	Inscription on the Tablet in the Memorial Chamber of the Tower at Thiepval
		(Ulster) Division, and of the sons of Ulster in other forces who laid down their lives in The Great War, and of all their comrades-in-arms, who by divine grace were spared to testify to their glorious deeds.
		It was in the shadow of Helen's Tower that the men of the newly formed Ulster Division drilled and trained on the outbreak of the Great war.
		For many of the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division the distinctive sight of Helen's Tower rising above the surrounding countryside was one of their last abiding memories of home before their departure for England, and subsequently, the Western Front.
	www.irishsoldier.org /tower.html (279 words)

	36th Division \| The Somme \| Ulster Loyalist Heritage
		The aim is to include content on The Somme, the 36th Ulster Division and other material on the heritage of Ulster culture.
		Please view our Somme Heritage Pictures, which are a tribute to the memory of the Ulstermen who bravely fought and died for the cause of liberty in the Great War of 1914-1918 and were taken at the Somme Heritage Centre in Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
		Orangemen enlisted in the 36th Ulster Division and were known to have fought (and died) wearing their Orange Regalia.
	www.luton-lambeg.org /culture/heritage/heritage_portal.htm (790 words)

	the battle of the somme
		It's 84 years since the men of Ulster went 'over the top' at the Somme, and in one of the most glorious episodes in the history of the British Army, earned the admiration of the nation and Empire for the gallantry displayed in the face of overwhelming odds.
		The glorious history of Protestant Ulster is all too often left to the beleaguered working class of the Shankill, East Belfast, Portadown, Lurgan, Waterside, and the Fountain, or to people in the rural areas to pass on the next generation.
		No, what saved Ulster and kept the Union Jack flying over the six counties of the new Northern Ireland was the blood sacrifice of the 36th (Ulster) Division at the Somme.
	www.battlehill395.freeserve.co.uk /somme.htm (695 words)

	Ulster Society - Demonstrations During Home Rule
		Ulster now not only had the will but the means to oppose the imposition of Dublin rule.
		The administration of Ulster was o be taken over "in trustfor the constitution of the United Kingdom (and) upon the restoration of direct Imperial Government, the Provisional Government shall cease to exist." Five days later, in a speech to a closed meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council, Carson explained the gravity of the situation.
		On 1 July 1916 the men of the Lister Division distinguished themselves with unparalleled courage and heroism opening the Allied Offensive on the Somme.
	www.ulstersociety.org /resources/home_rule/sequel2.html (792 words)

	Ulster history - The 20th century
		When the unionist Ulster Volunteer Force smuggled rifles into Larne in 1914, and the nationalist Irish Volunteers smuggled a smaller shipment of rifles into a harbour near Dublin, Ulster seemed to be poised on the brink of civil war.
		These divisions all lost part of their original identities after heavy casualties in battles early in the war, particularly the 10th Division which fought at Suvla Bay in 1915.
		Men from the 36th Division showed extraordinary bravery on the 1st July 1916, when they attacked the German lines at the start of the Battle of the Somme.
	www.cruithni.org.uk /overview/over_11.html (1364 words)

	The Ulster Tower and the 36th Ulster Division
		One of the paintings shows the men of the Division going over the top wearing their Orange Sashes as a reminder of their Protestant faith.
		At the entrance to the tower is a plaque commemorating the names of the nine men of the Division who won the Victoria Cross during the Somme.
		Not far away from the tower a number of the 5,500 fallen are buried in the Connaught Cemetery almost opposite and, slightly off the road the Mill Road cemetery.
	www.webmatters.net /france/ww1_ulster.htm (380 words)

	Ulster's Twin Towers
		Situated on the old German frontline attacked by the 36th (Ulster) Division on that date in 1916, it has been the focal point for remembrance for many years past.
		It was a far cry from the happy scenes in Ulster before the men left on their way to the front.
		And it was in remembrance of those days that the Ulster Tower was built as a replica of Helen's Tower on the Clandeboye estate, between Bangor and Newtownards.
	www.battlehill395.freeserve.co.uk /utt.htm (487 words)

	British 4th Division 1914-1918
		The Division was demobilised in Belgium in early 1919.
		Between 4 November 1915 and 3 February 1916, the Brigade was attached to the 36th Division
		36th (Ulster) Division was attached to this Division.
	www.1914-1918.net /4div.htm (484 words)

	uuptoday.org » Newry & Armagh Ulster Unionist Association remembers the Somme Period (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On Friday night last, Newry and Armagh Ulster Unionist Association held a Somme themed BBQ evening in the Masonic Hall, Markethill in commemoration of the event’s 90th Anniversary.
		Speaking on Friday night, Chairman of the Association, Cllr Jim Speers said: “Newry and Armagh Ulster Unionist Association are delighted at the level of support which we have received this evening and we are indebted to Amanda Moreno of the Armagh Fusiliers Museum for the informative presentation she has given to us.
		“We were here tonight to remember those of the 36th Ulster Division and those of the 16th Irish Division who laid down their lives in 1916 for the causes of liberty and freedom.
	uuptoday.org /newsroom/2006/08/24/newry-armagh-ulster-unionist-association-remembers-the-somme-period (437 words)

	The Ulster Division and the Battle of the Somme
		The Ulster Division and the Battle of the Somme
		THE 36th (ULSTER) DIVISION, AND THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, 1916
		Across the battlefields of France on 1st July 1916 dawn broke early, for, even during the night at that time of year, there was little darkness.
	www.houstonpk.freeserve.co.uk /36thUlster&somme.htm (5300 words)

	Thiepval Somme 1916
		The 36th (Ulster) Division moved into the sector in the Spring of 1916, with the 32nd Division alongside them in Thiepval Wood and south of the village.
		On 1st July 1916 the 36th (Ulster) Division attacked the German positions around the Schwaben Redoubt, and the 32nd Division advanced on Thiepval Ridge and the Leipzig Salient.
		Units from the 39th Division got a foothold in the Schwaben Redoubt, and finally took it on 14th October when the 4/5th Black Watch, 1/1st Cambridgeshires and 17th KRRC cleared the Redoubt of Germans.
	www.somme-1916.com /thiepval.htm (383 words)

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