Company Serjeant-Major James Scott of the Royal Irish Rifles, 14th (Young Citizens) Btn. kept a diary during the Great War.…
January 21. Sir Norman Stronge. Roll of Honour
On this day in 1981, 86 year old veteran, Captain, The Right Honourable, Sir Norman Stronge, Bt PC MC HML,…
January 20. Indebtedness to local journalism. Roll of Honour
Local journalists have left insights of two servicemen in today’s Roll. On this day in 1916, a Ballymoney paper recorded…
January 19. Italy Battle Honour for Inniskillings. First loss of 502 Sqdn. Roll of Honour
Today’s Roll includes accounts of former Inst student Ralph Ireland a young RN officer lost in heavy seas in 1917and…
January 18. Lurgan pilot dies in USA. Roll of Honour
Twenty-year-old Robert Lawther from Lurgan died this day in 1943 in an aircraft accident whilst undergoing pilot training in the…
January 17. Ship losses and Colditz. Roll of Honour
In today’s Veterans Roll read how on this day Sir Ivan Ewart’s saga of war service took a dramatic turn.…
January 16. Last Post commitment at Ypres. Roll of Honour
Each evening the Last Post is sounded at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres. We celebrate 21 years of voluntary…
January 15. Germans honoured fallen Armagh Gunner in LRDG. Roll of Honour
Two Inniskillings died on this day in France in 1918. William Plunkett was from Fermanagh and Thomas Wallace from Annalong.…
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