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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

Month: February 2022

February 28/29. Limavady-based Belfast men in aircraft crash. Roll of Honour

Remembered today are James McAllister a naval doctor from Islandmagee and QUB who was awarded a DSO for his service … More

Aghadowey, Islandmagee, Limavady, LOvell, North Irish Horse, Portrush, QUB, Tunisia

February 27. NI navy men in Battle of Java Sea. Roll of Honour

John McGuckin from Cookstown, Thomas Graham, and William Hagan from Belfast were lost in HMS Jupiter in 1942 in the … More

Banbridge, Cookstown, HMS Jupiter, HMS Repulse, Royal Ulster Rifles, Submarine Tigris, Tandragee

February 26. Spike Milligan served in tough times alongside Royal Ulster Rifles. Roll of Honour

Three riflemen Charles Hamilton from Shantallow, David Scott from Lisburn, and William Ruddock from Belfast, serving in the Royal Ulster … More

Ballymena, Bangor, Lisburn, Londonderry, Rangoon, RNAS, Spike Milligan, Tunisia

February 25. Five Belfastmen lost in HMS Maharatta on Murmansk convoy. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1944, five men from Belfast were lost when the destroyer HMS Mahratta was torpedoed and sunk … More

Ervin Wilson, Gallipoli, HMS Mahratta, McDowell MC, Murmansk

February 24. Inniskillings in Tunisia. Roll of Honour

Edward Dalton was one of the pioneers of civil aviation in Ireland. He served with the Royal Flying Corps in … More

DCM, Fleet Air Arm, Irish Guards, Londonderry, Portstewart, RFC, Royal Flying Corps

February 23. Greenisland and Larne airmen lost in same plane over Burma. Roll of Honour

In 1917 the Ballymena Observer reports that Robert Quigg VC has been awarded the Russian Medal of Saint George. In … More

502 Ulster Squadron, Alf Ramsay, Anzio, Ballykinlar, Ballymena, Burma, Greenisland, Larne, Quigg, Stanley Matthews, VC

February 22. Coleraine chaplain’s three gallantry awards. Roll of Honour

Today’s veteran was the most high-ranking Irish chaplain in WW1. Rev Dr. James G Paton who was awarded the Military … More

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.

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