Blitz Memorial, Belfast City Cemetery, 511 Falls Road, Belfast, BT12 6DE

A plain, freestanding dressed granite memorial and associated mass burial plot in Belfast City Cemetery, constructed from cut Mourne granite. The memorial comprises a two-stage plinth supporting a single block of granite with an angled upper section. The centre of the upper block is polished and engraved with an inscription recording: "In sad remembrance of 123 citizens of Belfast. Men women and children killed in an air raid by German bombers on the night of Easter Tuesday April 15th 1941 and whom no one was at that time able to identify. And 31 such so killed on May 4th 1941 they are buried in this plot. 'Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.' 'We sorrow not, even as others which have no more.'"

The memorial marks the mass grave of 154 unidentified civilians who died as a consequence of the aerial bombing campaign known as the Belfast Blitz in April and May 1941. Belfast was subjected to three major air raids by the Luftwaffe during this period. Due to a shortage of anti-aircraft guns, barrage balloons, and insufficient air-raid shelters, casualties were high, with approximately 900 people killed in total. Bodies of those who could be identified were recovered, but those bearing indication of Catholic faith such as medals, rosaries, or cloth scapulars were buried in a separate mass grave at Milltown Cemetery. The remaining 154 unidentified victims were interred at this location in the City Cemetery.

The paved perimeter of the memorial is edged in granite sets with matching strips to the outer edges. The four corners of the rectangular burial plot are marked with dressed square-plan granite corner stones, abutted by chamfered granite plinth walls. The memorial is bordered by low-level hedge box fencing and accessed to the north and south via a bitumac path.

The memorial fell into disrepair but underwent a £30,000 refurbishment in 2013 to mark the 72nd anniversary of the Blitz. This work included repaving the memorial perimeter in granite, levelling of the surrounding ground, re-engraving of the inscription, and the addition of hedge box fencing to replicate the original design. The memorial is sited in the western section of Belfast City Cemetery on the western side of the Falls Road, with the memorial centrally placed at the front of the mass grave plot.