The Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, being used as a Hospital Ship, sinks in the Aegean Sea on this day in 1916. Men from Dungannon and Larne returned with forces from Canada and New Zealand in WW1. Patrick Toner from Coleraine and Wlliam Wisoner from Tobermore died in Egypt serving with the Royal Artillery in 1941. David Corry from Newtownards died this day in 1944 serving with Royal Scots Fusiliers. His brother Henry died in May 1941 serving with the Gunners. R Maitland Beath an Instonian, served as a battalion medical officer, then as the radiologist on an ambulance train, and in the hospital ship St. Andrew. Post war he was a much respected radiologist and academic. He was QUB Services Club President 1939 – 40. He died on this day in Belfast in 1940. The British Journal of Radiology paid him tribute – “With the passing of Maitland Beath on November 28, radiology has lost one of those natural leaders of men who can so ill be spared”.
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