Peace Day Celebrations (1919) & the Belfast Charitable Institution

On 11 August 1919 the Orderly reported to the Belfast Charitable Society that the residents of the Old People’s Home thoroughly enjoyed the Peace Day Celebrations held earlier in the week. A parade of servicemen left Victoria Barracks, behind Clifton House, and made it’s way down Clifton Street into the city centre. Newspapers reported that 36 000 ex-servicemen paraded in Belfast that day marking the end of the Great War.