Armistice Day 2018 was marked in Bantry with a special ecumenical service at St Brendan’s Church. The high point of the ceremony was the unveiling of a new First World War memorial plaque following the traditional two minutes of silence at 11am.
Until now there has been no one memorial in the area listing all those, from the parish, who died in the First World War. The new memorial rectifies this.
The Rector, Canon Paul Willoughby, spent four years researching the history and background of all those from his parish area who died in that conflict. In that research he…
