After crash landing, Belfast RAF man stayed from May 44 until liberation with Belgian underground. In 1944 two from North … More
Month: June 2020
June 09 – Tandragee sailor’s six crossings to D Day beaches. Roll of Honour
Remembering Wm Tyrell a 19-year-old WW1 air ace; WW2 – Belfast Gunners at Dunkirk; RUR on D Day +3
June 08 – HMS Glorious lost in airstrikes off Narvik. Roll of Honour
Men from NI were in HMS Glorious sunk by gunfire off Narvik. Photo – The graves of several Royal Ulster … More
June 07 – Battle of Messines 1917. RUR on D Day +1
The Battle of Messines in WW1 had the biggest bomb before the atomic bomb. Fusilier John Meeke of the unionist … More
June 06. D-Day – Rifleman Billy Moore. Roll of Honour
D-Day through the accounts of Lisburn’s Billy Moore of the Royal Ulster Rifles. Eisenhower’s Message to the forces. Stats in … More
June 05 – NI men who died with Kitchener. Rome freed. Roll of Honour
The 12 NI men who died with Kitchener in HMS Hampshire in 1916 included a young doctor who was the … More
June 04 – Ballymena RAF brothers in arms. Roll of Honour
In WW1 three Navy men in an infantry role who died at Gallipoli are recalled today. In 1917 William Andrews … More
June 02 – Roll of Honour. NI true stories from Jutland
Jutland stories – King George VI and a gunner from Portadown, A Mason’s memento, a survivor who died serving in … More
