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	The First Battles of the Somme 1918
		They believed that the British were exhausted by the four major efforts in 1917 (Arras, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai).
		At the same time as German strength was growing, the British Army was depleted, having to face up to a manpower crisis and resultant reorganisation, and at a low point of morale after enduring the conditions of Passchendaele and the disappointment after early success at Cambrai.
		The greatest losses were to 36th (Ulster) Division [7,310], 16th (Irish) Division [7,149] and 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division [7,023].
	www.1914-1918.net /bat22.htm (861 words)

	History of the Royal Irish Rangers The 36th Ulster Division
		Also, since the British positions were everywhere overlooked, the Germans had plenty of time to range their artillery and site their machine gun emplacements to the most deadly advantage.
		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.
		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)

	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 Volunteer Force, a Protestant organisation created by Sir Edward Carson as a force to counter the threat of the Home Rule Bill, was already in existence and its members were as eager as any to join the war.
		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)

	Ulster Grenadiers--------History of the 36th Ulster Division.
		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 Theipval, along the ridges of the river Ancre and the "Impregnable" Schwaben Redoubt.
		Almost every family in Ulster mourned its 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.
	ulstergrenadiers.com /36th.html (423 words)

	The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
		The Highland regiments wore the kilt and feather bonnets.
		The British regiments marched in square and the French shirked from the attack.
		Once the Light Division had reached the high ground, Wellington’s flank was secure, with the Seventh Division on the right and the British line resting on Fuentes de Oñoro to the left.
	www.britishbattles.com /peninsula/fuentes.htm (2334 words)

	Ulster Tower Thiepval - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ulster Tower is a memorial to the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division.
		Many of the men of the Ulster Division trained in the estate before moving to England and then France early in 1916.
		The 107th Brigade supported them, but although 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Tower_Thiepval (882 words)

	British 36th (Ulster) Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British 36th (Ulster) Division was a New Army division formed in September 1914.
		Originally called the Ulster Division, it was made up of members of the Ulster Volunteer Force who formed 13 additional battalions for three existing Irish regiments; the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
		The 36th were one of the few divisions to make significant gains on the first day on the Somme.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_36th_(Ulster)_Division (527 words)

	Ulster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The war in Ulster ended with the defeat of the Irish Catholic army at the battle of Scarrifholis in 1650 and the occupation of the province by the Cromwellian New Model Army.
		In particular, the heavy casualties of the 36th Ulster Division (largely composed of volunteers from the UVF) became a source both of mourning and of pride for the loyalist community down to the present day.
		The flag of Ulster served as the basis for the flag of Northern Ireland, which functioned as the region's official flag until the proroguing of the Stormont parliament in 1973.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster (2863 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group.
		The current incarnation was formed in May 1966 and named after the UVF of 1912.
		Many UVF men, naturally, enlisted, mostly with the British 36th (Ulster) Division.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /UVF (668 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The original UVF was formed by Edward Carson and James Craig as a militia in the tensions surrounding the potential success of the third Home Rule campaign.
		The UVF is also considered responsible for a series of attacks on utilities installations in 1969, in the expectation that the IRA would be blamed and unionists would become even more strongly opposed to the reforms of O'Neill's government.
		A bomb in a Belfast bar that killed fifteen people in December 1971 is attributed to the UVF as is the murder of the SDLP politician Paddy Wilson in 1972.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/UVF (862 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)

	First Day of the Somme - Thiepval
		The 32nd Division, consisting of the 97 Brigade - including the 17th Highland Light Infantry - and the 96 Brigade - including the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers (Newcastle Commercials) and 15th Lancashire Fusiliers (Salford Pals), and the 36th Division, with the 49th Division in reserve.
		This was the high ground in the centre of the line, and it was vital for Haig's Plan that it be taken and that the troops reach the village of Courcelette, almost 4 miles behind the German line.
		The 36th Division suffered 5,104 casualties, including 2069 dead (making it the 4th worst-hit Division of the 16 used on the day).
	www.johndclare.net /wwi2_FirstDay_Thiepval.htm (959 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.
		In the dreadful conditions of the battlefield the British artillery's preliminary barrage and its subsequent "creeping" covering fire, which went far ahead of the attackers, were ineffective; and a few supporting tanks, bogged down in the impassable mire, never appeared.
	dnausers.d-n-a.net /dnetDkjs/36art01.htm (2178 words)

	36th (Ulster) Division peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The British 36th (Ulster) Division was a New Army (British) division (military) formed in September 1914.
		Originally called the Ulster Division, it was made up of members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (1912) who formed 13 additional battalions for three existing Irish regiments; the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
		Between November 1915 and February 1916 the brigade swapped with the 12th Brigade from the British 4th Division.
	www.peee.org /en/36th+(Ulster)+Division (394 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)

	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)

	Irish Battalions
		Ulster and Southern Irish regiments fought side by side and high regard for the courage demonstrated was mutual.
		Right through the war, the British feared a German invasion either in Britain or Ireland and the Special Reserve had a home defence role.
		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
		On the night of 30 June 1916, the ten battalions of the Ulster Division assembled in the Thiepval Wood area in a nearby sunken road.
		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.
	www.mod.uk /DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/HistoryAndHonour/MenOfUlsterRememberedAtTheSomme.htm (987 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)

	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)

	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)

	Irish Regiments Of The British Army ::
		For it is on the morning of July 01, 1916 at 07:30 that the infantry attack was to begin at the Battle of the Somme.
		By the time the Ulster Division was relieved the following day it would suffer 5104 casualties with approximately 2069 dead.
		It is based on a painting by J.P. Beadle entitled The Battle of the Somme (36th Ulster Division).
	www.freewebs.com /irishregimentsofthebritisharmy/36thulsterdivision.htm (272 words)

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		In 1914 the Second County Down Volunteers were recruited as the 16th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles shortly to be designated the Pioneer Battalion of the 36th Ulster Division.
		It is an account of tremendous achievement under terrible condiditons and records why in bringing freat credit to itself and to the Ulster Division, the attainments of the 16th Reifles merit the justifiable pride of the people of Ulster.
		Indeed it worked, and on some occasions took part in combat, on all the battlefields on which the Ulster Division fought; and, pioneer skills being in great demand, on some when the Division was not engaged.
	www.irishsoldier.org /products/terrors.html (285 words)

	Remembrance - Further Information
		Falls, The History of the 36th Ulster Division, M'Caw, Stevenson and Orr, Belfast, 1922.
		Denman, T. (1987), "The 10th (Irish) Division 1914-15: a study in military and political interaction," The Irish Sword, XVII, 16-25.
		Karsten, P. (1983), "Irish soldiers in the British Army, 1792-1922: suborned or subordinate?" Journal of Social History, XVII, 31-64.
	www.greatwar.ie /rem-con.html (1095 words)

	British 36th Ulster Division: Encyclopedia II - British 36th Ulster Division - Formation
		British 36th Ulster Division: Encyclopedia II - British 36th Ulster Division - Formation
		In August 1917 the 8th and 9th battalions of the Royal Irish Rifles amalgamated to form the 8/9th Battalion which disbanded in February 1918.
		Between November 1915 and February 1916 the brigade swapped with the 12th Brigade from the 4th Division.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/British_36th_Ulster_Division_-_Formation/id/603615 (507 words)

	United Irelander
		The presence of the British military exacerbated an already grim situation in NI and led to the continuation of a bloody and miserable chapter in Irish history.
		Irish people shall remember the British presence in NI primarily for Bloody Sunday in 1972 and for the countless other instances of mistreatment which they dished out to citizens of this land.
		"The British cabinet was infuriated by the proposal.
	unitedirelander.blogspot.com (2668 words)

	History - Theatre - Arts-Directory.org
		The 36th (Ulster) Division and the Battle of the Somme, 1916
		Detailed and informative essay on the role of the British 36th (Ulster) Division in the Battle of the Somme, 1916.
		History of the volunteers of the Russian Expeditionary Corps in the Moroccan Division during the Second Battle of the Ma rne.
	theatre.arts-directory.org /history.html (283 words)

	The Ulster-Scots Part 1. @ lol513.com
		However, Ulster was sometimes still ruled by a Cruthinic king, either with the consent of the Ulaid, or through force.
		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.
		The 17th century immigration of a numerous Scots element need not be considered outside the preceding series, and the continuing movements to and fro since then have served to emphasise the essential ancient Britishness of the Ulster homeland.
	www.lol513.com /lol513ulster.html (863 words)

	Ask Us A Question (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Royal Ulster Rifles was an Irish infantry regiment of the British Army.
		The unionist militias, the Ulster Volunteer Force and Young Citizens Volunteers had amalgamated with the 36th whilst the nationalist National Volunteers had joined the 16th after the outbreak of WWI.
		In 1968, under reforms of the army, the Royal Ulster Rifles was amalgamated with The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and The Royal Irish Fusiliers to form The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th).
	www.avoo.com /wiki/Royal_Irish_Rifles (256 words)

	36th Ulster Division
		The 36th (Ulster) Division was swiftly raised, three infantry brigades being formed on a
		The Ulster Divisions position was now a vulnerable salient in the German line.
		The 36th Ulster Division in the remains of a village after a battle.
	www.newtownardsvolunteerflute.com /36th.html (1329 words)

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