On this day in 1981, 86 year old veteran, Captain, The Right Honourable, Sir Norman Stronge, Bt PC MC HML,…
January 20. 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. Roll of Honour
Today’s Roll inludes accounts of former Inst student Ralph Ireland a young RN officer lost in heavy seas in WW1;…
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…
January 17. Ship losses and Colditz. Roll of Honour
John Carr of the Royal Naval Air Service was lost on a ship taking him to a new post in…
January 16 – Last Post service at Ypres. Roll of Honour
Each evening the Last Post is sounded at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres. We celebrate 20 years of voluntary…
January 15 – Meaulte Military Cemetery. Roll of Honour
Two Skins died on this day in France in 1918. William Plunkett was from Fermanagh and Thomas Wallace from Annalong.…
January 14. Ulster’s searchlight Gunners. Roll of Honour
The WW2 entries today reflect the retreat to Dunkirk by an Ulster Searchlight Regiment and the war waged from the…
