Samuel Trimble, a Sergeant in the Royal Marines, was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal for his service in HMS Achilles at the River Plate on this day in 1939. Archie Douther from Ballyclare emigrated to Canada. On the outbreak of WW1 he joined up becoming a Sergeant in 18th (Western Ontario) Battalion. He was one of those struck down by the Spanish influenza outbreak at the end of the Great War. His remains were brought home to Ballyclare. George McAllan emigrated from Dungannon to South Africa where he died in service with the RAF in 1918. In 1941 Belfast men, John Henderson and Thomas Montgomery, were lost in HMS Puckeridge, a Hunt type escort destroyer. Two veterans served in the North Irish Horse. Donald Graham transferred from the Horse to the RAMC. A son of the manse, he and four brothers, all doctors, served in the RAMC. Henry Whiteside, born today in 1892, saw action with the Horse in the retreat from Mons and the advance to the Aisne. Commissioned into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, he returned to France seeing action in the Advance to Victory offensive in the last months of the war. Baron MacDermott, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland is among todays veterans. He served with the Machine-gun btn. 51st (Highland) Division and was awarded an MC. In WW2 he served as a Major in the Royal Artillery.
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