26/09/2024
The society has just returned from another great trip to the battlefields of the Somme.
We had the pleasure this time of accompanying the blues and royals Fb as the paraded and played at individual graves that had personal stories for some of us.
Also present were members of Dundela football club and LOL 609.
A memorable trip where we visited the Ulster tower, thepvial memorial to the missing on day 1, rounded of by parading through bertnancourt, and the linfield memorial.
Day 2 brought us to vimy ridge and the Canadian memorial, without doubt one of the best memorials on the Somme, and also the Anzac memorial.
Day 3 we visited Tyne cot cemetery, and wrapped it all up accompanying the blues and royals as the marched to the menin gate for the last post ceremony.
We also visited a relatives graves of two of our members.
And paid a moving tribute to a distant in-law of our chairman, and let an elderly relative in her 90s see something she never thought she would ever see.
