Two women are named in today’s Roll. Sister Rosa McGibbon from Lurgan served in the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service and died as a result of her deployment in WW1. Barbara Blakiston-Houston from Killyleagh, a Section Officer in the WAAF, died in a WW2 flying accident. Their graves are in their home churchyards. In 1941 three Royal Ulster Riflemen died in a road accident near Antrim. William Henry Irwin from Bangor served in both world wars with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He died in Alexandria, Egypt in 1944. Photo – The Great War Battlefields in Winter: the French Cemetery at Chattancourt near Mort Homme, Verdun.
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