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26/5/16 – Grangegorman Military Cemetery Event

Yesterday, 26th May 2016, the groups chairperson and patron Dr Ian Adamson attended a Ceremonial event marking the deaths of British Soldiers during the failed Easter Rising at Grangegorman Military Cemetery.

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As many as 125 soldiers of the British Armed Forces died during this period.

 

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Each soldier that died was a unique individual – a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a sweetheart, a friend. Each of these lives mattered, and their memory matters today.

Lest we forget!