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Cadets Plant Somme Memorial Woodland

9th May 2016 at 4:17pm

Army cadets from all over Northern Ireland braved the weather over the weekend to plant a new memorial marking the 100th Anniversary of the battle of the Somme.

The specially designed wooded glade will pay tribute to the sacrifice made by the thirty-sixth Ulster Division on 1 July 1916.

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