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Private W McFadzean

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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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UWC 1974-2004

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“Undeterred and undefeated”. In May 1974, the Ulster Worker’s Council (led by H&W shop stewards and supported by the UDA) organised a strike protesting the December 1973 Sunningdale Agreement. After two weeks, the Executive collapsed and direct ruler from Westminster resumed.

The photograph reproduced can be seen on the Bel Tel.

Lincoln Court, Londonderry

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UDA Memorial

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“In memory of Ben Redfern, Lindsay Mooney, Cecil McKnight, Gary Lynch, Ray Smallwoods, William Campbell. Lest we forget.” For Redfern and Lynch, see It’s Still Only Thursday; Smallwoods has a WP page; Campbell died in 2002 in a premature pipe-bomb explosion (Guardian).

Lincoln Court, Londonderry

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The Reaper Come To Call

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“Through the lonely streets of Ulster/the reaper come’s to call/He travel’s from town to city/Right down to Derry’s wall/When the UFF they call him/To come and join the fight/He say’s if the bullet doesn’t kill them/They’ll surely die from fright/So when you’re in your bed at night/And hear soft footsteps fall/Be careful it’s not the UFF/And reaper come to call.” Iron Maiden’s ‘Eddie The Head’ in UFF fatigues (see the Visual History page for Eddie) with a list of the urban Belfast companies in the South Belfast brigade.

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So Much Given To So Many By So Few

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“Never before in the field of human conflict was so much given to so many by so few” is based on Churchill’s speech to the House of Commons on August 20th, 1940, which read “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”. “[For] It is not for glory that we fight, not honour or rich but freedom alone which no man loses but with his life.” echoes the Declaration of Arbroath “for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”

Dover Place, west Belfast

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