Remembrance NI
Every day is a Remembrance Day
Day: July 9, 2019
July 9 – HMS Vanguard sunk by accidental explosions
The Vanguard Memorial in Lyness cemetery is dedicated to all those who died in HMS Vanguard on July 9, 1917. The battleship was destroyed while at Scapa Flow by an internal explosion. Of 845 men in Vanguard, only 2 survived. 16 from Northern Ireland…
July 9 – Green Beret RBL stalwart was five years a German POW
Despite his wartime experience, Bill Balmer served in the Royal Marines until July 11, 1953
