November 25. Thomas Sinclair QUB had last word on the Red Baron. HMS Barham. Roll of Honour

Thomas Sinclair served during WW1 as a consulting surgeon to the army in France and Egypt. He conducted an examination of the German ace, the Red Baron, after he was shot down. He was Professor of Surgery at QUB and the first President of the Queen’s Services Club formed to remember their colleagues who fell by those who returned. See Veteran’s Roll. On this day in 1941, the battleship HMS Barham sank in the Mediterranean whilst taking part in an operation against an Italian convoy to Lybia. Four men from Belfast, Larne, Magheragall, and Portadown were lost. Read short account of Seaman Gunner David Murphy from Coleraine who served in Barham at Jutland. This day in 1945 RAF began Operation Deadlight, scuttling or sinking U boats off the north-west coast of Ireland.

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