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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

Category: ARMY WW2

June 17 – From Rifleman to RSM of RUR via Ranville, the Ardennes and Korea. Roll of Honour

From RUR airborne on D Day to Korea, the record of RSM William McConnell. In today’s Roll – The Ni … More

Ardennes, Ballyclare, HMS Wild Swan, Korea, Lancastria, Lisburn, Normandy, RAMC, Ranville, RUR

June 06. D-Day – Rifleman Billy Moore. Roll of Honour

D-Day through the accounts of Lisburn’s Billy Moore of the Royal Ulster Rifles. Eisenhower’s Message to the forces. Stats in … More

D-Day, Eisenhower., Montgomery, Royal Ulster Rifles

May 27 – Roll of Honour. Dunkirk evacuations day one

On this day: The first day of evacuations from Dunkirk in 1940. The sinking of the Bismarck in 1941. Two … More

Bismarck, Dunkirk, HMS Majestic, HMS Princess Irene

The Royal Ulster Rifles at Dunkirk

Bala Bredin’s recollections; How 338,000 Allied troops were saved in ‘miracle of deliverance’; 40 Facts about Dunkirk; The Dunkirk Memorial

Bala Bredin, Dunkirk, Royal Ulster Rifles, RUR

May 23 – Roll of Honour. Bob Wright – from Sandy Row to Dunkirk and Burma

The Roll of Honour for WW2 highlights two major developments. Entries for 1940 reflect the defensive fall back to Dunkirk … More

23 May, Bob Wright, Burma, Cassino, Dunkirk, May 23, North Irish Horse, Sandy Row

May 03 – Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll begins with two Royal Marines from Belfast and Derry named on the Helles Memorial at Gallipoli. Our veteran … More

3 May, Ian Smith, In Flanders fields, Limavady, May 3, MC

May 02 – Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll includes accounts of a number of remarkable people. Sir Robin Kinahan served with a Belfast gunner unit in … More

2 May, HMS Edinburgh, May 2, Robin Kinahan

April 24 – Roll of Honour. Military Medal for Royal Ulster Rifles Corporal

Records of 20 NI men. RUR Corporal awarded MM in WW2. On This Day review of major events of the … More

24 April, April 24

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