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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

May 17. Derry’s Dambuster. Roll of Honour

Flight Sergeant Richard “Dickie” Bolitho who was born in Londonderry in 1920 was a casualty in the Dambusters’ Operation Chastise…

Ballymena, Bolitho, Cookstown, Dambusters, Lisburn, Norway

May 16. Inniskillings major losses at Battle of Festubert. Roll of Honour

In 1915 at Festubert 265 Inniskillings died and 390 were injured in a hard-fought battle. The Roll of Honour today…

Cassino, Dervock, Festubert, Inniskillings, Lisburn, Toomebridge

May 15. WW1 charity football match. WW2 PoW’s six-month march. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1915, a combined Linfield and Belfast Celtic football team played a Rest of Belfast team to…

Cassino, Festubert, POW

May 14. U boats surrender at Derry. Quigg VC anniversary. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1945, the surrender of German U-boats began on the Foyle. News report on two local regiments…

Gibraltar, Londonderry, Quigg VC, U boats surrender, VC

May 13. 23 lost in HMS Goliath at Gallipoli. Roll of Honour

The sinking of HMS Goliath off Cape Helles in 1915 dominates today’s Roll. 570 of the 750 men were lost…

Dardanelles, HMS Goliath, HMS Undaunted

12 May. Start of final assault on Monte Cassino. Roll of Honour

Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the final successful attack involving 38 (Irish) Brigade on Monte Cassino in…

Burma, Dunkirk, Irish Brigade, Killyleagh, Monte Cassino

May 11. Derry sub hunter’s record. NI Horse wins Canadian honour at Cassino. Roll of Honour.

On this day in 1940 RNR Commander William Brown Piggot from Londonderry had his first major success as a U-boat…

Brown Piggot, Derry sub hunter, Monte Cassino, North Irish Horse

May 10. Invasion of Holland. Westminster parliament bombed. Roll of Honour

The first airborne operation in history took place this day in 1940 when Germany invaded the Netherlands. A year later…

Gurkhas, Holland invasion, Imphal

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