September 13. Legal expert was Chief Test Pilot with the Mediterranean Fleet. Roll of Honour

Amongst those remembered today is Lieutenant-Commander Gerald Ralph Auchinleck Darling, RNVR. Fleet Air Arm, Chief Test Pilot. He had a most successful law career in London post-war but he maintained Crevenagh, Omagh, as his home. Walter Pollock of Londonderry was only 18 years of age when he died this day in 1914 serving with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. His name is inscribed on St Columb’s Cathedral (Church of Ireland) Memorial to the men connected with that cathedral who died during the 1914-18 War, on the La Ferte Sous Jouarre Memorial, Seine et Marne, France, and on the Diamond War Memorial, Londonderry

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