On this day in 1981, 86 year old veteran, Captain, The Right Honourable, Sir Norman Stronge, Bt PC MC HML, Military Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre, was killed in his home at Tynan by the Provisional IRA. The Roll today commemorates twelve servicemen from NI. Brigadier Russell was in Tunisia in 1943. Describing 20th/21st January he said, “The 3rd Battle of Bou Arada, was a bloody battle, in which the London Irish so greatly distinguished themselves, but at almost crippling cost, while guarding our Line of Communication, a lateral road from Bou Arada to Grandstand.” Hubert Henderson, a former student of Rockport, serving with the London Irish Rifles, a battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles, was killed in 1943 during the fighting on Hill 286. His name is recorded on the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial, Tunisia. Thomas Russell from Ballymena serving with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers died in Italy in the aftermath of the Battle of Garigliano in 1944. That night William Gowdy from Larne and Herbert Gracey from Belfast died on a Bomber Command mission over Magdeburg, Germany. Robert Horne from Belfast died on a reconnaissance flight near the Po Valley, Italy in 1945. Get today’s report here –
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