"I am not an Ulsterman, but yesterday, the first of July, as I followed their amazing attack I felt I would rather be an Ulsterman than anything else in the world...The enemys' gunfire raked them from the left, and machine guns in a village enfiladed them on the right, but battalion after battalion came out of the awful wood as steaily as I have seen them at Ballykinler, Clandeboye or Shanes' Castle..." - W.B. Spender, 2nd July 1916