Daddy Steele – the NI General who mobilised the Army for WW2

General Sir James Stuart Steele, Inst and Queen’s OTC, served in both world wars and in 1939 his hand signed … More

Donaghadee air ace downed 18 enemy planes in WW2

During the war Desmond Hughes, Campbell College, Belfast, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, downed 19 enemy aircraft. He later supervised the … More

The Irish War Memorial Records; The Victoria Cross record of the 36th (Ulster) Division; The memorial to Edmund De Wind … More

The exploits of Michael Torrens-Spence DSO DSC DFC, and an Honour Roll of Fleet Air Arm personnel from NI.

Eighteen men from Queen’s University and the Officer Training Corps served in the Royal Flying Corps and the emergent Royal … More

This was the nickname of a small force of old armoured cruisers in the North Sea. Men from Ni … More