Remembrance NI
Every day is a Remembrance Day
Month: May 2019
May 30 – Downpatrick air gunner was on first 1,000 bomber raid
Over 30 operations, shot down and became POW. Marched across Germany he was repatriated in 1945
May 30 – First thousand plane raid on Germany 1942
Women pilots of Air Transport Auxiliary. Roll of Honour. Events On This Day.
27 May – Majestic and Princess Irene lost in 1915. Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk continues 1940. Hunt for Bismarck in 1941
Rolls of Honour. Events On This Day. Download web site magazine
May 25 – In remembrance – Fall of Boulogne and sinking of HMS Coventry in San Carlos
Roll of Honour. Events On this day
MAY 24 – HMS Hood sank by Bismarck 14 NI fatalities
Hood and Armagh link to origin of penalty kick. RH & OTD
May 23 – Roll of Honour & On This Day
Belfast gunners die in Dunkirk defence. Himmler commits suicide.
