Featured today is Tyne-Cot War Cemetery. It is the largest British military cemetery in the world. Its size and scale are indicated in seven photos in the daily report – link below. In 1914 Charles Dunlop became the first Instonian to die in WW1. The old-boy of RBAI was a graduate of Sandhurst serving with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. His father had served as Fleet Surgeon. The Roll includes a remarkable acount of the Colgan family of Ballymena. Thomas Colgan, Royal Irish Rifles, died this day in 1916, six weeks after the death of his son Thomas. In 1921 Mrs Colgan attended the dedication of the Uster Tower, and two sons wore their father’s and brother’s medals at the dedication of the World War 1 memorial in the Ballymena memorial garden. In today’s Roll are eleven of the Royal Irish Rifles. Four RN personnel from NI died in the destroyer HMS Hurworth, mined off Crete in WW2. They include Ross Kirkpatrick, the Medical Officer, who had survived when HMS Zulu was sunk by aircraft off Tobruk and who was awarded a DSC for his services then.
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