April 22. Song – The Green fields of France. North Irish Horse Trooper’s WW2 Military Medal and Bar. Roll of Honour

In 1915 the Second Battle of Ypres began and saw the first major gas attack by the Germans.The song ‘The … More

April 21. The QUB professor and the Red Baron. Roll of Honour

Thomas Sinclair, Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University, Belfast, in April 1918, found himself at the centre of one of … More

Richard Pim a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer from NI was in charge of Churchill’s Map Room during WW2 and … More

A newspaper report from 1915 gives an insight into the establishment of a reserve battalion for the Inniskilling Fusiliers. Five … More

Charles Trainer, a Londonderry sailer who survived the sinking of HMS Hawke, died in the sinking this day in 1915 … More

On this day in 1934 the Fairey Swordfish biplane, which would become famous for its WW2 Royal Navy service, made … More

This night in 1941 aerial mines were dropped by the Lufwaffe and aimed at the Royal Naval Maintenance Yard at … More

On 15/04/1941 Belfast was hammered in one of the largest and most devastating aerial bombardments of World War II. The … More