Two NI men serving with Canadian forces died this day in 1917. James Blackwood was in the medical corps and Crumlin-born William Yarr enlisted in Alberta. He is named on the war memorial of St Catherine’s C of I, Killead.In 1940 JK Haire, an RAFVR pilot from Belfast, died saving a village school. He is named on the RAF Fighter Memorial, Battle of Britain Memorial, Capel-le-Ferne, near Dover and on RBAI WM. In 1944 two RAFVR aircrew on a mission to Gravenhorst were lost in different planes and are remembered at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. A veteran, John Piggott, served in RN 1901 – 1927. Born in Limavady he lived in Coleraine. Photo – Memorial of the liberation of Walcheren, in the Netherlands in 1944 which involved 4 Special Service Brigade – 41, 47 and 48 Commando – ferried in by the Royal Navy. They were part of a daring assault against multiple, heavily defended batteries.
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