June 22. Dunkirk Gunner who joined the RAF. Roll of Honour

Gunner Ernie Harwood escaped Dunkirk in a fishing boat in 1940 and joined the RAF. On this day Barbarossa, the … More

June 21. DCM for WW1 Ballymena Gunner. WW2 Naval pilot was Japanese POW. Roll of Honour

This day in 1916 Joseph Francey a Ballymena Gunner was awarded the DCM. Henry McGowan from Portstewart died in WW1 … More

Edgar James Bernard Buchanan, DSO, and his younger brother Richard Brendan Buchanan were from Londonderry. Edgar became an engineer and … More

After crash landing in Belgium, Belfast RAF man, Walter Berry, stayed from May 44 until liberation with the underground. In … More

During WW2 George Johnston left the Ulster Bank in Dungannon, serving in Egypt, Italy and Greece with the Gunners. Two … More

In today’s Roll are remembered John Irvine from Ligoniel and John Murphy from Cookstown, both of the Pioneer Corps, who … More

This day in 1915 William Cotter from Aughnacloy and Belfast was injured serving with the Royal Irish Rifles. He refused … More

James Thompson of the Royal Irish Regiment, and Coleraine, was lost in the troopship SS Arcadian in the Mediterranean when … More