Albert Kirkpatrick was in HMS Spartan when it was sunk in the Anzio operations on 29/01/1944.
Month: January 2019
Belfast Wren’s fatal voyage from South Africa to Sri Lanka
Nineteen year old Ethel Margaret Hunter was aboard SS Khedive Ismail in February 1944.
Service personnel and relatives killed during the Belfast Blitz
The blitzes of Belfast impacted on the service community in different ways. Individual service men were killed. The families of … More
Belfast gunners died defending London in Blitz
After serving in Europe and at Dunkirk the 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was deployed to defend the … More