Remembrance NI
Every day is a Remembrance Day
Month: February 2019
February 28 – Ulster Division’s Newcastle link
Attack on Telemark heavy water plant and three RAF remembered
February 27 – Service in HMS Jupiter and HMS Electra sunk this day.
In the newspapers. On this day. Roll of Honour
February 26 – North Irish were Japanese prisoners of war
Inspection of 36th Ulster Division – On this day – Roll of Honour
February 24 & 25 -In remembrance
Five Belfast men lost escorting largest convoy to Murmansk on February 25, 1944. Roll of Honour.
February 23 – Greenisland and Larne airmen lost in Liberator over Burmah
On this day Kenneth Williams, Royal Engineer and later famous actor was born, and Iwo Jima was re-taken. Roll of Honour.
February 22 – Sailors in the WW1 trenches
Belfast Marine who served in Dardanelles died on the Somme this day. Roll of Honour. On this day.
February 21 – Brothers in arms
The MacDermotts of Belmont, The Buchanans of Derry. Roll of Honour. On this day.
February 20 – On this day
Lisburn becomes a WW1 French town. In WW2 – losses in HMS Warwick and of a RAF pilot from Whitehead, as Irish Brigade now under Pat Scott fight tough in Italy.
