The Belfast Blitz of 1941-Belfast City Cemetery

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Reference WMO/291736

Address:

Belfast City Cemetery

Falls Road

Belfast

BT12 6EQ

Northern Ireland

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Status: On original site

Type: Freestanding

Location: External

Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace

Description: Stone of remembrance

Materials:

Stone Stone (any)
Stone Granite

Lettering: Incised

Conflicts:

Second World War (1939-1945)

About the memorial: A stone tablet on the top sloping surface of a granite plinth. There is a similar memorial at Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, hence the very particular title (this is not yet recorded on WMO due to insufficient information, but it's presence is noted by Wikipedia). Of interest is that one German died in the Blitz- he was Ernest William Riecken (born 14 April 1876 at New Munster)- a waiter at the Carlton Cafe, Donegall Place, Belfast. He and his wife Louisa died at their home- 6 Annadale Street on the night of 15-16 April 1941. He is recorded as being buried somewhere at Carnmoney, but the location of his grave has not been identified (so therefore in one of the parish graveyards). His wife's body was never recovered or was unidentifiable, but was recorded as deceased at the subsequent mass inquest on 6 June 1941.

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Not all those who died in the Blitz are recorded in CWGC lists of Civilian casualties-
Example 1- The McGee family of 20 York Park-Henry (the father), Ann Jane (the mother), Margaret (daughter), Henry (grandson)- all of whom were buried in the family plot at Carnmoney Cemetery on 8 May 1941, and the house is recorded as having been destroyed in the Blitz, and Margaret as admitted to hospital from there (initially unidentified).;
Example 2- The Barr family of 74 York Park- James Alexander (father), Jeanie/Jinnie/Jennie (wife-spellings vary), William Cathcart (son) and Elizabeth (daughter)- all but Elizabeth are recorded by the CWGC, all four were recorded on the Civil Defence Lists and newspaper notices. All are buried in Connor new Cemetery, the gravestone says died 15 April, CWGC states 16 April; 
Example 3- Edith Frances Ferguson Lilley (nee Irwin) and Albert William Lilley, of 72 Hogarth Street, were initially buried on 21 April in the reserve plot which this memorial commemorates. They were exhumed on 30 April and reburied in the Glenalina extension grave T1 228, with a private gravestone.;
Example 4- In Milltown Cemetery there is a gravestone to a James McVeigh stating that 4 members of his family were killed in the Blitz- his sons Francis and Charles (and Charles' wife Elizabeth and their baby son Dennis). However only Francis is in the CWGC lists. This is because Charles was a step son of James, so had the surname of Fullerton;

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IN SAD REMEMBRANCE/OF 123 CITIZENS OF BELFAST MEN WOMEN/AND CHILDREN, KILLED IN AIR RAID BY/GERMAN BOMBERS ON THE NIGHT OF EASTER/TUESDAY, APRIL 15TH 1941,AND WHOM NO/ONE WAS AT THAT TIME ABLE TO IDENTIFY/AND 31 SUCH, SO KILLED ON MAY 4TH 1941/THEY ARE BURIED IN THIS PLOT/"SINCE BY MAN CAME DEATH, BY MAN CAME/ALSO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD"./"WE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH/HAVE NO HOPE."

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