October 31. Sailors in the trenches 1. Roll of Honour

Many men and from every part of Ni served with the Royal Naval Division in WW1. They took part in every major land battle. They were sailors serving as infantry. They kept their ranks and naval traditions. Over sixty men from Northern Ireland died serving with the RND in Gallipoli and on the Western Front. See their names in today’s special Roll of Honour. They included career men like Methodist College Belfast former pupil, William Leigh Maxwell, Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Marines, who was Brigade Major at Antwerp, and Jack Caton of Muckamore. He was a textile worker who enlisted and became a sergeant in the army and was commissioned as an RNVR Officer to serve with the Brigade. Maxwell was killed in action serving with the Division in the Dardanelles on 12/05/1915. Caton was killed on 27/03/1918 on the Western Front. In today’s roll there are servicemen who died at Ploegsteert, Ypres, Somme and Hamburg in WW1 and in Norway, Egypt, Netherlands, and Italy in WW2.