The Harland & Wolff built cruiser HMS Penelope was sunk this day in 1944 off Anzio, Italy. William Hunter from Ballyclare, Thomas Gould from Belfast, Ken Hewitt from Londonderry and Samuel Taylor from Dundrod were lost in this ship which previously had been attacked so often it was nicknamed “HMS Pepperpot”. On the same day Joseph Irvine from Tempo serving in the Irish Guards died at Anzio. In 1943 William Bloomer from Belfast fell in Burmah serving with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. His father died serving with the same regiment in Gallipoli in WW1. Two QUB medical officers Brooke Purdon and Archibald Fullerton were awarded the Military Cross on this day during WW1.
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