Today’s Roll of Honour records twenty-seven men from NI who died at Arnhem including James Boyd from Portstewart serving with the Glider Pilot Regiment, James Cameron from Carrickfergus of the Parachute Regiment and formerly of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Francis Dolaghan from Belfast who was Shan Hacket’s batman and Robert Percy from Ballymena in the RAF. Men from Belfast and Larne perished in Glenfoyle, one of the disguised identities of the Q Ship, HMS Stonecrop, which was sunk by a U boat on this day in 1917. Photo – Men of No 3 Plt , ‘R’ company, 1st Parachute Battalion, 1st British Airborne Division armed with Bren gun and no.4 rifles defend a large shell hole outside Arnhem, The Netherlands during operation Market Garden, September 1944.
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