August 15. Gallipoli, Third Battle of Ypres, and Japanese surrender. Roll of Honour

The Japanese surrendered in 1945 and Royal Navy Aircraft celebrated with a flypast over HMS Duke of York. David Bell from Gracehill, a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, was among the many thousands of Allied POWs who died in Japanese camps along the Burma Siam Railway – made famous by the epic movie ‘Bridge On The River Kwai’. He was educated at Ballymena Academy and Trinity College, Dublin. Twenty-seven entries in 1915 reflect the cost of the Gallipoli campaign. Likewise sixteen entries for 1917 reflect the Third Battle of Ypres. Adam Craig, also from Gracehill, and a father of five children, died in Belgium with the Royal Irish Rifles in 1917. George McArthur a Royal Navy sick bay attendant died in 1944. From St.Aubyn Street, he had been a member of the North Belfast Division of the St John Ambulance Brigade, and a staff sergeant in the Boys’ Brigade. Photo – Painting of Victory in the Pacific Day at the Australian War Memorial this day in 1945