The Young Citizen Volunteers of Ireland, or Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV) for short, was a loyalist paramilitary organisation for loyalist youths which later became the youth wing of Ulster loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Volunteer Force.

The Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV) was an officially Ireland-wide, although in fact Belfast-based, militia group established in 1912. Initially adopted an officially politically neutral stance it quickly became associated with Unionism and opposition to the Irish Home Rule Movement.

WW1 memorial; centre: soldiers, poppies, crosses; 'At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them'; left: soldier and cross; 'East Antrim volunteers', Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) crest; right: Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV) crest, 'Lest we forget', 'We cherish too the poppy red that grows in fields where valour led; it ...

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He joined the 14th Royal Irish Rifles, which was drawn from members of an organisation called the Young Citizens Volunteers (YCV)'; crest of UVF East Belfast Regimental Band.

Oct 13, 2024 · The Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV) is a Northern Irish loyalist group which is the youth movement attached to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). It takes its name from an earlier YCV that was associated with the original Ulster Volunteers, although there is no direct continuity between t

Loyalist mural, Shankill Rd., West Belfast, 2011. '36th Ulster Division Battle of the Somme 1st July 1916'; UVF/YCV crest, left, 36th Ulster crest, right; above, 'One Faith One Crown'.

Mar 1, 2014 · The text in the side-wall board (shown below) is from the diary of a Somme soldier: “We surge forward. Bayonets sparkle and glint. Cries and curses rent the air. Chums fall, some without a word … and others … Oh, my God! May I never hear such cries again! There goes the YCV flag tied to the muzzle of a rifle. That man had nerve!

The Young Citizen Volunteers of Ireland, or Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV) for short, was an Irish civic organisation founded in Belfast in 1912. It was established to bridge the gap for 18 to 25 year olds between membership of youth organisations—such as the Boys' Brigade and Boy Scouts —and the period of responsible adulthood. [1] .

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