DescriptionThe Walker Memorial Plinth at the Royal Bastion on the Grand Parade - geograph.org.uk - 1516132.jpg
English: The Walker Memorial Plinth at the Royal Bastion on the Grand Parade The Rev George Walker a soldier and Anglican priest was the joint governor of Londonderry with Major Baker, during the siege of 1689, and who in contrast to the cowardly and treacherous Robert Lundy, galvanized the opposition of free minded people to the Tyrant King James II. Walker was to heroically die in the following year at the Battle of the Boyne, whilst tending to the wounds of his injured comrade, the Duke of Schomberg. In 1826, in recognition of and respect for the much loved man, a 27m high memorial column surmounted by a statue of Walker was erected on the Royal Bastion, on the historic city walls. In 1973 the column was destroyed by a 100lb IRA terrorist bomb,an act of cultural vandalism, which was widely recognized as an attempt by the sectarian terrorists to erase an important part of the City's Protestant Culture and Heritage. The shattered remains of the Walker's statue has been restored and placed in the garden of the nearby Memorial Hall of the Apprentice Boys of Derry. The restored statue was again attacked by Irish Republican Vandals in 2010.
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