Templepatrick C2

CASTLE UPTON
Ulster Volunteers at Castle Upton in Templepatrick after the signing of the Ulster Covenant on September 28, 1912.
Almost half a million people signed the Covenant, which was drawn up in opposition to Home Rule.
In January 1913 the Ulster Unionist Council decided the Volunteers should be renamed the Ulster Volunteer Force and receive training in firearms.
Thousands of them and other men from Northern Ireland were to die on the bloody battlefields of the Somme in July 1916.