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