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Browse via Object (Ref Nᵒ 1493) For a higher quality version, please click the thumbnail above ** Filesize = 0.17 MB **   Date   Friday 17th June 2016     Promoter   REMEMBER AND REFLECT (ARDS AND NORTH DOWN)     Location   Comber Collection Ref   A - 004    Collection ID 99 Objects 2 Description   Artefact Relating to - Samuel McClurg, 16th Rifles Pioneer Battalion, 2nd County Down Volunteers, Royal Irish Rifles Classification   Photograph Unique Object ID 1493 Description   Photograph - Soldiers assembled in uniform on steps of Brownlow House Notice: Undefined variable: OBJECT_Description in /var/www/html/LivingLegacies/DigitalArchive/Browse/Object/Summary_OfObjectDetails.php on line 34     Additional Information   "Samuel McClurg from Dromara, (soldier) born 8th June 1888, died 1960 Joined the army age 26 and served in the 16th Rifles Pioneer Battalion, 2nd County Down Volunteers, Royal Irish Rifles (RIRif). A member of his local Orange Lodge and band. Samuel was gassed at Somme and after this, he continued to serve and cooked for the group he was with. He cooked at home as well, and always made us ‘Cook’s sore leg’, a jam roly poly. He came home from the war but he didn’t talk about the war at all. He married late on in life, in 1937, aged 49, when he met my mother who was 12 years younger. When he came home he remained close friends with McDowell, who was a cousin of the man in the photo. Both were well-sinkers, and had explosives knowledge, that why they went to Volunteers. He and McDowell went everywhere on their bicycles, and they always sang, they sang this song, I looked it up, it was called the“North Down Militia”. Anyway they sank wells, so there were explosives in the house. One day my mother cleared the cupboard, threw these explosives in the fire and up they went! She got the blame of course. He lived a good life, until 1953 he had a heart attack, perfectly good health until then. He died in Scotland whilst he was visiting friends. His medals are in England, my son has them mounted on a green-backed case with the photograph. "     Other objects in the same collection Photograph Photograph

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