
Amongst veterans remembered today is the WRNS officer from Ballycastle who had to resign her commission as she outranked her husband to be. Today is their wedding anniversary. In 1916 Inniskillings battalions were engaged in Belgium and Greece. This is the anniversary of the WW2 sinking of HMS Abdiel. Three men from NI lost. Account by Para survivor. Norman Ewart from Finaghy died flying a Mark V Supermarine Spitfire. He is named on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt, a family memorial at Knockbreda Cemetery and the RBAI WM. – Photo courtesy Eoin McConnell.