January 20. Local journalism. Roll of Honour

Local journalists have left insights of two servicemen in today’s Roll. On this day in 1916 a Ballymoney paper recorded … More

January 19. Italy Battle Honour for Inniskillings. Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll inludes accounts of former Inst student Ralph Ireland a young RN officer lost in heavy seas in WW1; … More

Twenty year old Robert Lawther from Lurgan died this day in 1943 in an aircraft accident whilst undergoing pilot training … More

John Carr of the Royal Naval Air Service was lost on a ship taking him to a new post in … More

Each evening the Last Post is sounded at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres. We celebrate 20 years of voluntary … More

Two Skins died on this day in France in 1918. William Plunkett was from Fermanagh and Thomas Wallace from Annalong. … More

The WW2 entries today reflect the retreat to Dunkirk by an Ulster Searchlight Regiment and the war waged from the … More

Five men from NI were among the casualties in HMS Viknor which was lost without trace off Donegal with bodies … More