Remembrance NI
Every day is a Remembrance Day
Category: Army WW1
Free E- mail booklet on anniversary of sinking of RMS Leinster
On October 10, 1918, one of the most controversial actions of the war took place a few miles from Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire), when German U Boat torpedoed the RMS Leinster resulting in the deaths of servicemen and women, and civilian staff and passengers. Among…
September 5 – Roll of Honour
The Roll today reflects the loss of HMS Pathfinder, the first RN warship to be sunk by a locomotive torpedo from a German U boat; the service given by two WW1 nurses who died in the course of their duty, and two members of…
August 27 – A Famous Inniskilling Drum
Derryman’s interesting story from the Londonderry Sentinel, Saturday, August 27, 1932
August 16, 1917 – 27 Londonderry men die on first day of Battle of Langemarck
The battle produced tiny gains for the Allies and heavy casualties. Twenty-seven men associated with the city of Londonderry, and its immediate environs, lost their lives on that terrible day.
August 16, 1917 – Messines worse than the Somme – a costly date for the Ulster and Irish Divisions
A year after the Battle of the Somme, the 36th Ulster Division was a changed force. Whilst there was still a significant number of men from the north of Ireland, many had been wounded two or three times but when they returned to their…
August 9 – Roll of Honour of Inniskilling Fusiliers at Potijze
There are 21 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers amongst the 365 war graves at Potijze Chateau Wood Cemetery (above), West Vlaanderen, Belgium. Their names are recorded in this Roll of Honour
August 7 – Derry’s Australia Light Horse Trooper at Gallipoli
Wall of Remembrance at Australia’s National War Memorial in Canberra. George Henry “Harry” McNeill lived in Londonderry with his parents, two brothers, and sister. Jobs in the city were scarce, so he decided to go to Australia and learn sheep farming. There were cousins…
