Bessbrook War Memorial in Charlemont Square
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Bessbrook War Memorial in Charlemont Square
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 15 May 2012
The Memorial bears the names of almost ninety men who lost their lives in World War I and fifteen men and women who were lost in WWII. The top name on the 1939-45 panel is that of Sister Beatrice Olivia Dowling 266662, of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service who was drowned when the SS Khedive Ismail was sunk by a Japanese submarine off the Maldives on 12 February 1944, age 24 and who has no known grave. She was the daughter of Sam and Sadie Dowling, of Belfast. http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/ships/Khedive_Ismail_SS/html/nurses_database_15.htm http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/ships/Khedive_Ismail_SS/html/history.htm One of those named on the 1914-18 Roll of Honour is Pt. Edmund Gray RIF, a stretcher bearer, killed in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 and who has no known grave. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/familys-pride-for-ulster-war-hero-with-no-grave-edmund-gray-died-in-no-mans-land-rescuing-wounded-30330479.html
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