- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 6331
- Description
- Brass shield plaque with etched Celtic knot decorated border incorporating alternate thistles and shamrock with, at the point of the shield, the etched badge of the Young Citizens Volunteers worn by the 14th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (Young Citizens Volunteers). Etched crest of the Royal Irish Rifles at the top. Below central inscription a red and black etched badge of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). On a wooden backboard.
- Inscription
- ROYAL IRISH RIFLES/ QUIS SEPARABIT/ IN MEMORY OF/ RIFLEMAN WILLIAM FREDERICK MCFADZEAN VC/ 14TH BATTALION, ROYAL IRISH RIFLES Y C V/ [ULSTER DIVISION]/ WHO WAS BORN AT LURGAN ON THE 9TH OCTOBER 1895 AND WHO/ TO SAVE THE LIVES OF HIS COMRADES GAVE HIS OWN LIVE ON/ THE 1ST JULY 1916 AT THIEPVAL WOOD, FRANCE/ WHEN IN THE TRENCHES IN WHICH THE MEN OF HIS BATTALION/ WERE MASSED FOR ATTACK THE FUSES OF SOME BOMBS HAVING/ BEEN ACCIDENTALLY IGNITED, HE THREW HIMSELF ON THESE/ BOMBS SO COVERING THEM WITH HIS OWN BODY THAT BY/ THEIR EXPLOSION HE ALONE WAS KILLED./ "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN/ HIS OWN LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" JOHN XV 13./ "IN SUCH A DEATH THERE IS NO STING. IN SUCH A GRAVE THERE IS/ EVERLASTING VICTORY"/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE/ FIRST BATTALION EAST BELFAST REGIMENT, UVF,/ AND BALLYNAFEIGH & NEWTOWNBREDA/ UNIONIST CLUB.