Over Remembrance weekend, a special event took place to commemorate Ulster-Scots Victoria Cross recipient, John Alexander Sinton.
The ceremony took place at Woodvale Cricket Club in Belfast with the unveiling of a new installation. Sinton, an army doctor who earned his VC award for tending to wounded soldiers while badly wounded himself, played for the club in his youth and lived just a couple of doors away from its ground on the Ballygomartin Road.
The installation consists of a Discover Ulster-Scots blue plaque and an interpretive panel about Sinton placed at the entrance gates of the club.
The project was supported by the Ulster-Scots Agency. Chief Executive Ian Crozier attended the event to speak about Sinton's Ulster-Scots heritage and how he – and others like him – should be an inspiration for present and future generations of Ulster-Scots.
Ian also presented Woodvale Cricket Club with a portrait of Sinton, a replica of the original watercolour from the Agency's Ulster VCs of the Great War project, which is now on permanent display in the Somme Heritage Centre.
