LEADBETTER STREET, Belfast.

This was a mural painting which was on a large blank wall at the Old Lodge Road end of Leadbetter Street, Oldpark Road, Belfast. Unfortunately, it no longer exists.

The following is a description of it written at the unveiling.

‘The subject of the painting is “Comrades of the Great War,” the central feature being a picture, in colours, of a badly wound soldier being rendered first aid by a Navy boy, while shells are bursting all around, and overhead is an enemy aeroplane, which been set in flames by British anti-aircraft guns.  Above is a graceful draping, with an ornate arrangement of British flags, and beneath are painted in large distinctive letters to names of the men whose names are on the roll; -’

The FALLEN

Atkinson, T., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Bradshaw, W., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Baird, D., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Bashford, J., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Eagle, J., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Greer, H., Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 

Greer, W., Private, Seaforth Highlanders

Greer, W. J., Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 

Irvine, S., Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 

Kearney, W., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Kane, W. H., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

M’Dowell, W., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

M’Dowell, H., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

M’Dowell, J., Private, Royal Army Medical Corps

M’Dowell, J., Private, Royal Irish Fusiliers

M’Dowell, J., Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 

M’Guicken, W., Private Royal Irish Fusiliers

M’Cormick, W., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

M’Clements, W. J., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

M’Clelland, J., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

M’Adam, A., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

M’Kenna, J., Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 

M’Connell, W., A.B., Royal Naval Reserve

Nesbitt, S., Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 

Owens, J., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Thompson, S., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Thompson, J., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

Wade, W., Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles

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