Ulster Memorial Tower, Thiepval, Picardy, France
A memorial now stands upon the ground where men from Ulster fought and died. The Ulster Tower is a replica of Helen’s Tower from the Dufferin and Ava Estate at Clandeboye, where the Ulster Division trained before arriving in France.
Financed by public subscriptions and built in 1921, this mock Gothic style tower is a memorial to the soldiers of the Ulster Battalions who fought here on the 1st July 1916. In the memorial grounds, a plaque remembers the Division’s nine Victoria Cross winners. One of the men is Private Robert Quigg, from Bushmills, who searched No Man’s Land looking for his officer Sir Harry Macnaghten. Another memorial, unveiled in 1994, commemorates men of the Orange Order.
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