Newspaper reports. RH and events On this day
Author: Watchkeeper
April 2 – Falklands – South African founder of RAF
Royal Navy Falklands bound. RH & OTD
February 28 – Ulster Division’s Newcastle link
Attack on Telemark heavy water plant and three RAF remembered
Armagh survivor of Anzio sinking
Albert Kirkpatrick was in HMS Spartan when it was sunk in the Anzio operations on 29/01/1944.
Belfast Wren’s fatal voyage from South Africa to Sri Lanka
Nineteen year old Ethel Margaret Hunter was aboard SS Khedive Ismail in February 1944.
Service personnel and relatives killed during the Belfast Blitz
The blitzes of Belfast impacted on the service community in different ways. Individual service men were killed. The families of … More
Belfast gunners died defending London in Blitz
After serving in Europe and at Dunkirk the 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was deployed to defend the … More
NI links with costliest event in Royal New Zealand Navy’s history
Seven men from Northern Ireland lost their lives in HMS Neptune. They were from Belfast, Bangor, Larne, Limavady, Portadown and … More
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