Everyone who attended the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme was sent a commemorative invitation.
It said:
The Government of Northern Ireland
Request the honour of the company of
at a Commemorative Service
to be held at
The Ulster War Memorial, Thiepval, Somme, France
At 10.45am on Friday, 1st July
This invitation in the Somme Museum Collection belonged to Captain T. G. J. Bourke.