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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

Author: Watchkeeper

January 29. Anzio sinking survivor’s Sunday date. Roll of Honour

Albert Kirkpatrick survived the sinking of HMS Spartan off Anzio. He kept an interesting weekly date at St Columb’s Cathedral, … More

Anzio, Banbridge, Derry cathedral dog, HMS Avondale, HMS Spartan, LOvell, MCB, QUB, St Helena

January 28. McCrae,the poet of remembrance. Ballymena and The Great Escape. Roll of Honour

The writer of “In Flanders fields the poppies grow”, the most famous poem of WW1, died on this day in … More

Ballentine, Ballymena, Craig MP, Flanders fields poem, Great Escape, McCrae, poppy, POW

January 27. Inniskilling Fusiliers losses in both wars this day. Roll of Honour

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day – On this day in 1943 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps. By … More

Aughnacloy, Bellaghy, Brookeborough, Drumbeg, Fintona, Fivemiletown, Fusiliers, Upperlands

January 26. Australia Day. Son of Belfast shipyard founder. First US troops deploy in WW2. Roll of Honour

The Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux is a memorial to 62,000 Australian personnel who died during the First World War … More

Australia, Australian memorial, Boys’ Brigade, Singapore, US Army, Villers-Bretonneux, Workman Clark

January 25. Queen’s female medical trailblazer. HMS Laurentic lost off Swilly. Roll of Honour

Isabel Addley Tate is the only woman to be named on the Queen’s University War Memorial. Isobel Addey Tate lived … More

Ballymoney, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Derry Gunners, Gilford, HMS Olympus, Laurentic, Murmansk convoy, QUB trailblazer, QUB woman medic, Tate

January 24. Anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill. Roll of Honour

In 1917 Sub-Lieutenant Ian McCormick fell serving with the Royal Naval Division at Beaumont Hamel on the Somme. The twenty-one-year-old … More

Royal Naval Division, Churchill, Royal Ulster Rifles, Tunisia, Beaumont Hamel, Flower Class Corvettes

January 23. Lisburn officer led Irish Brigade in north Africa. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1943 the British Army entered the Lybian city of Tripoli exactly three months since they had … More

Campbell College, Battle Honours, Ulster rugby, Russell, North Africa, Pathfinder, Clough

January 22. Belfast bishop on the beach as battle for Anzio begins. Roll of Honour

Company Serjeant-Major James Scott of the Royal Irish Rifles, 14th (Young Citizens) Btn. kept a diary during the Great War. … More

Anzio, Bishop, Burma, Kangaw, Masonic, Myanmar, RBAI

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