Visitors to a Pearl Harbor memorial can view vessels sunk in the attack by Japan on this day in 1941. … More
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December 6. Unknown Warrior – Irish chaplain’s key role. Roll of Honour
Two Church of Ireland chaplains played a key role in developing the new museum of forces’ chaplaincy which includes a … More
December 5. Church choir welcome for returned Japanese POW. Rolls of Honour
Today in 1945 the choir of Dunmurry Parish Church welcomed home their member Billy Coates who had been a Japanese … More
December 4. North Irish Horsemen become Fusiliers. Limavady’s Arctic Star. Roll of Honour
Robert Kerr from Derrygonnelly, Enniskillen, died this day in 1918, in a Hamburg hospital, after the Armistice which brought about … More
October 16. Victims of 1918 HMS Otranto disaster at Islay buried in Belfast. Roll of Honour
Edwin Edmonds from Belfast serving in the Royal Navy perished in HMS Otranto on this date in 1918. Hundreds of … More
May 13. 23 from NI lost in HMS Goliath at Gallipoli. Roll of Honour
The sinking of HMS Goliath off Cape Helles in 1915 dominates today’s Roll. 570 of the 750 men were lost … More
April 2. Royal Ulster Rifles advance into Germany in WW2. Roll of Honour
Hugh McCory from Shankill, Belfast, Peter Little from Coagh,and John Cousins from Dollingstown died this day in WW1. Samuel Clayton … More
February 5. RUR WW2 intelligence gathering. Roll of Honour
In 1916 two Belfast men, Alfred Bingam and Joseph Jones of the Royal Irish Rifles, 9th Btn, died on the … More
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