Ernest Seaman VC, MM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. A soldier with The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, he was posthumously awarded the VC for his actions on 29 September 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War.
The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing, shown here in the background, includes a commemoration to Seaman
The 36th (Ulster) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Lord Kitchener's New Army, formed in September 1914. Originally called the Ulster Division, it was made up of mainly members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, who formed thirteen additional battalions for three existing regiments: the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The division served from October 1915 on Western Front as a formation of the British Army during the Great War.
Window in Derry Guildhall commemorating the three Irish divisions which served in the Great War
Mural in East Belfast commemorating the various regiments of the division
Ulster Tower, Thiepval
Men of the Inniskillings posing with captured German equipment in the aftermath of the Battle of Messines
