Every day is a Remembrance Day
In today’s Roll for WW1, a former North Irish Horse trooper who contracted malaria and died while serving in Palestine, and a Royal Flying Corps pilot from Belfast who died in Egypt. From WW2, a Royal Ulster Rifleman who fought for the liberation of…
Edwin Edmonds from Belfast perished in HMS Otranto on this date in 1918. Hundreds of men including US army personnel died when in a storm the troopship was rammed by another ship off Islay. Photo above – Funeral on Islay of 199 American soldiers…
One of the greatest single losses to Royal Navy personnel from Northern Ireland occurred on the 15th October 1914 when the German Submarine SM-U9 which was patrolling the North Sea came across two British Cruisers, HMS Hawke commanded by Capt. Hugh P.E.T. Williams, and…
Remembrance event at the council offices in Lisburn. The figure is that of Frank Pantridge. He was awarded the Military Cross for his services as a Medical Officer during the Fall of Singapore when he became a POW. He served much of his captivity…
The Princess Royal led the 80th anniversary tributes to those who lost their lives on HMS Royal Oak in October 1939. Six weeks into the war seven men from Northern Ireland were amongst 833 sailors who were lost when their ship HMS Royal Oak went…
Among those remembered today – Men from Cookstown and Larne who served in Australian and American forces in WW1; A Belfast Gunner from the Shankill Road who died in WW2 blitz defending London; two RUR men who fell in the liberation of Holland.
The WW1 men remembered today fell in Egypt, Syria, and France. In WW2 they died in Japan, Egypt and at sea. They came from three counties. Photo – Standards of the RAF Association.
