Billy McFadzean won the Victoria Cross for “conspicuous bravery” at the Somme on July 1st, 1916, when he threw himself on a box of grenades that had fallen into the trench, with two pins becoming dislodged. The emblems of the UVF, YCV, and (modern) RHC are added.
Kinsale Park, Londonderry
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