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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

March 28. Colditz escaper. Coleraine air-ace. Roll of Honour

This day in 1942 Billy Stephens was taken prisoner during Operation Chariot, the raid on St Nazaire. He was one…

Beamish, Colditz, Coleraine, Langford Lodge, MI5, Operation Chariot, Pakenham, St Nazaire

March 27. Last day of 36th Ulster Division. WW2 Naval airman cheats death. Roll of Honour

In 1943 aircraft carrier HMS Dasher (photo) caught fire and exploded. It was the Roya Navy’s second largest catastrophe in…

Babington, Coleraine, Fleet Air Arm, Gaza, HMS Dasher, Limavady, Muckamore, RNAS

March 26. Whippet tanks released against German Spring Offensive. Roll of Honour

Six sons of the Thompson famiy of Gobnascale House, Londonderry served in WW1. William who died this day in 1918…

Bushmills, CAI, Coleraine, Cookstown, Gilford, HMS Jaguar, Londonderry, North Irish Horse, Tanks, Whippet

March 25. Kaiserschlacht WW1. Operation Varsity WW2. Roll of Honour

Dungannon born John Tackaberry was serving as the medical officer with the 31st Punjabi Regiment when he died from cerebral-spinal…

Bangor, Basra, Coleraine, Dungannon, Kaiserschlacht, Lisburn, Varsity

March 24. Royal Ulster Rifles airborne role in Operation Varsity – crossing the Rhine. Roll of Honour

On 24th March 1945, 1st Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles took part in Operation Varsity. The operation was the largest airborne…

Kaiserschlacht, Operation Varsity, Royal Ulster Rifles, RUR Airborne

March 23. Admiral McClintock of Ballycarry; Fusilier Morrow of Fivemiletown. Roll of Honour

Admiral John McClintock of Ballycarry retired on this day in 1929, completing 55 years service including four years continuous sea…

Admiral, Ballycarry, Commando, Fivemiletown, HMS Laforey, Londonderry, McClintock, Palestine, Portadown, Pozieres

March 22. Courageous Derry NCO. Coleraine Gunner’s Italian travels. Roll of Honour

Sergeant James Henry Jackson, M.M. and Bar, from Londonderry died serving with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, resisting the 1918 German…

Ballymena, Coleraine, HMS Gaillardia, Londonderry, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

March 21. VC won in last major German offensive of WW1. Roll of Honour

The Roll of Honour today is dominated by the records of some of those who fell in the fallback from…

Comber, Derry, DeWind VC, Kaiserschlacht, Spring Offensive, Upperlands, UVF, Veteran, Victoria Cross

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