{"id":355,"date":"2016-06-13T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulsterandthegreatwar.com\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2016-06-14T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:54:26","slug":"nugent-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ulsterandthegreatwar.com\/nugent-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nugent exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Major General Sir Oliver Nugent<\/h3>\n<p><em>The man who led the Ulster Division<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A 10 panel portable exhibition summarizing the life and military career of the County Cavan man who took command of Ulster\u2019s finest.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>About this project<\/h3>\n<p>Working with the Ulster Historical Foundation, PRONI, Belfast City Council and Cavan County Museum, this exhibition brings together rarely-seen photographs from Nugent\u2019s own archives.<\/p>\n<p>Of Anglo-Irish ancestry, he was very much a County Cavan man, even going so far as to name his local branch of the Ulster Volunteer Force as the Cavan Volunteer Force, which he said had been founded \u201cfor defence and not for aggression\u201d. Nugent appointed his neighbor and friend Lord Farnham as his aide-de-camp. Farnham survived an assassination attempt in 1914.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the Battle of the Somme, Nugent flew over the battlefield to survey the German lines. On the 2 July he wrote these words to his wife:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dearest, the Ulster Division has been too superb for words. The whole army is talking of the incomparable gallantry of officers and men. \u2026 The Ulster Division has proved itself and it has indeed borne itself like men. \u2026 I did not believe men were made who could do such gallant work under the conditions of modern war. \u2026 I am very sad<\/p>\n<p>when I think of our terrible losses\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May 1918 Nugent was replaced as GOC of the 36<sup>th<\/sup> Ulster Division. Such was Nugent\u2019s discipline during the Great War that he was awarded a silver medal by the Pope, having ordered his men to respect and protect Catholic churches in France. He was knighted in 1922.<\/p>\n<p>He unveiled the war memorials in Lisburn in 1923 and in Ballymena in 1924. He died in 1926 and was buried at Mountnugent Church, with a memorial service at St Anne\u2019s Cathedral in Belfast.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The exhibition is available to borrow from the Ulster-Scots Agency, email <a href=\"mailto:info@ulsterscotsagency.org.uk\">info@ulsterscotsagency.org.uk<\/a> for further information<\/li>\n<li>A free PDF version can be downloaded here<\/li>\n<li>BBC \u2018Word War One at Home\u2019 audio clip about Nugent and Farnham <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02b39cj\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02b39cj<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Major General Sir Oliver Nugent The man who led the Ulster Division A 10 panel portable exhibition summarizing the life and military career of the County Cavan man who took command of Ulster\u2019s finest. 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