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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

March 24. Royal Ulster Rifles airborne role in Operation Varsity – crossing the Rhine. Roll of Honour

On 24th March 1945, 1st Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles took part in Operation Varsity. The operation was the largest airborne…

Kaiserschlacht, Operation Varsity, Royal Ulster Rifles, RUR Airborne

March 23. Admiral McClintock of Ballycarry; Fusilier Morrow of Fivemiletown. Roll of Honour

Admiral John McClintock of Ballycarry retired on this day in 1929, completing 55 years service including four years continuous sea…

Admiral, Ballycarry, Commando, Fivemiletown, HMS Laforey, Londonderry, McClintock, Palestine, Portadown, Pozieres

March 22. Courageous Derry NCO. Coleraine Gunner’s Italian travels. Roll of Honour

Sergeant James Henry Jackson, M.M. and Bar, from Londonderry died serving with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, resisting the 1918 German…

Ballymena, Coleraine, HMS Gaillardia, Londonderry, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

March 21. VC won in last major German offensive of WW1. Roll of Honour

The Roll of Honour today is dominated by the records of some of those who fell in the fallback from…

Comber, Derry, DeWind VC, Kaiserschlacht, Spring Offensive, Upperlands, UVF, Veteran, Victoria Cross

March 20. Tommy Jess, Lisburn survivor of HMS Lapwing.Roll of Honour

HMS Lapwing was sunk on a convoy to Murmansk in 1945. Three men from NI were lost. Tommy Jess (photo)…

Ballymena, Bangor, Coleraine, Downpatrick, Enniskillen, HMS Lapwing, Murmansk, VAD, YMCA

March 19. Future Queen visits Comber for RN baptism. Roll of Honour

HRH Princess Elizabeth came to Comber in 1946 to be godmother at the baptism of Elizabeth Lavinia Sarah King daughter…

Ballymena, Baptism, Comber, Osborne King, Queen Elizabeth

March 18. The fighting McAtamneys from Carrickfergus. Roll of Honour

Photo – In 1944. Anzio area, Italy. Men from 2 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers reading the sports newspaper “Ireland’s Saturday Night”.…

Anzio, Ballymoney, Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Highland Light Infantry, Inniskilling Fusiliers, Langemarck, McATAMNEY, Qua Iboe, QUB, RBAI, Tyne Cot

March 17. Queen Victoria and the shamrock. Launch of HMS Belfast . Roll of Honour

HMS Belfast was launched on St Patrick’s Day, 17 March 1938 by Anne Chamberlain – the wife of then Prime…

Chamberlain, HMS Belfast, Irish Brigade, North Irish Horse, Prime Minister, Queen Victoria, Shamrock, St Patrick’s Day

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