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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

Author: Watchkeeper

March 2. With the Gurkha Rifles at Cassino. Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll records the deaths of two members of the Royal Marine Light Infantry. One from Lisburn died in the … More

Cassino, Gurkha Rifles, HMS Stronghold

March 01. Poetry loving tank commander. A Coleraine romance. Roll of Honour

William Cross was one of the significant number of NI men who served with forces from the British Empire in … More

February 28/29. Limavady-based Belfast men in aircraft crash. Roll of Honour

Remembered today are James McAllister a naval doctor from Islandmagee and QUB who was awarded a DSO for his service … More

LOvell, RAF Limavady

February 27. NI navy men in Battle of Java Sea. Roll of Honour

John McGuckin from Cookstown,Thomas Graham and William Hagan from Belfast were lost in HMS Jupiter in 1942 in Battle of … More

HMS Jupiter, Sub Tigris

February 26. Spike Milligan served in tough times alongside Royal Ulster Rifles. Roll of Honour

Three riflemen Charles Hamilton from Shantallow, David Scott from Lisburn and William Ruddock from Belfast, serving in the Royal Ulster … More

RUR, Spike Milligan, Tunisia

February 25. HMS Maharatta lost on Murmansk convoy. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1944 five men from Belfast were lost when the destroyer HMS Mahratta was torpedoed and sunk … More

Ervin Wilson, HMS Mahratta, Murmansk

February 24. Inniskillings in Tunisia. Roll of Honour

Edward Dalton was one the pioneers of civil aviation in Ireland. He served with the Royal Flying Corps in WW1. … More

February 23. Greenisland and Larne airmen lost in same plane over Burma. Roll of Honour

In 1917 the Ballymena Observer reports that Robert Quigg VC has been awarded the Russian Medal of Saint George. In … More

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