Squadron Leader Hugh Heron AFC was born in Belfast and left RBAI – Inst – to join the RAF. He took part in the Battle of Britain and survived the war. His post-war fund raising efforts for a Battle of Britain Memorial and memorabilia are reported here. Today’s Roll records the names of 56 men of the Royal Irish Rifles who died this day in 1917. They reflect the fighting around Cambrai and include John Clydesdale of Downpatrick whose brother had died at the Somme the previous July. In 1918 Jonas Logan died serving with 544th Engineer Regt. The U.S. Army Private is remembered at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery. He is also named on the war memorial in Ballintoy Parish Church on the north coast of County Antrim. James Lewis from Belfast who died in HMS Hebe in 1943 had a brother and sister serving with Canadian forces. Emma Fleck an army nursing sister from Dervock died in 1947 and is remembered on the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial.
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