Owen Paterson and Peter Robinson in France, where they laid wreaths and remembered those who lost their lives at the Somme.
of the
95th ANNIVERSARY
of the
BATTLE OF THE SOMME
JULY 1916-NOVEMBER 1916,
1st July 2011
THE PLACING OF OFFICIAL WREATHS
DEPOTS DES GERBES OFFICIELLES
Dr Ian Adamson OBE High Sheriff of Belfast
Ulster Tower ,Thiepval.
1. HRH The Duke of Gloucester, the Honorary President of the Somme Association
2.The Rt Hon Owen Patterson MP Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
3.The Rt Hon Peter Robinson MLA First Minister of Northern Ireland
4. Mr Dinny Mc Ginley TD Irish Minister of State
5. Sou-Préfet de Picardie et la Somme
6. Colonel James Murray-Playfair-Representing the Defence Attaché
7. Conseil Generale de la Somme
8. Monsieur Max Potié, Maire de Thiepval
Monsieur Didier Samain, Maire de Guillemont
Monsieur Regis Schoonheere, Maire d’Authuille
9. Ville de Granvilliers
Ville d’Athy
10. Geert Vandewynckel- Elderman van Heuvelland, Belgie
11. Brigadier Smyth-Osbourne Commander 38 (Irish ) Brigade
12. Royal Irish Regiment-Lt Col CRJ Weir MBE
Irish Defence Forces-Brig Gen Behan
Le Délegation Militaire Département de la Somme-Lt Col JQDeval
13. Madame Chantel Carton, Pays du Coquelicot
14. Sergeant Major Ralph Beckmann, German Embassy to France
15. Mrs Eileen Bell CBE Somme Association
16. Vi Sergeantson-Director of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
17. Lt Col Arthur Reid Royal Irish Fusiliers Association
16th Irish Division Memorial, Guillemont
1. HRH The Duke of Gloucester, the Honorary President of the Somme Association
2. Mr Dinny Mc Ginley TD Irish Minister of State
3. The Right Hon Owen Paterson MP Secrteary of State for Northern Ireland
4. The Rt Hon Pter Robinson MLA First Minister of Northern Ireland
5. Monsieur Didier Samain, Maire de Guillemont et Madame Marie-Genevieve Desalloud, Maire de Ginchy
6. Brig Gen Behan-Irish Defence Forces
7. Brigadier Smyth-Osbourne Commander 38(Irish) Brigade
8. Royal Irish Regiment-Lt Col CRJ Weir MBE
9. Somme Association-Mr Teddy Colligan