This night in 1941 aerial mines were dropped by the Lufwaffe and aimed at the Royal Naval Maintenance Yard at…
April 15. Belfast Blitz. Liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Roll of Honour
On 15/04/1941 Belfast was hammered in one of the largest and most devastating aerial bombardments of World War II. The…
April 14. HM Submarine Upholder. Roll of Honour
On this day in 1942 HM Submarine Upholder was lost with all hands off Tripoli. Two submariners from Northern Ireland…
April 13. Foundation of Royal Flying Corps. HMS Repulse survivor. Roll of Honour
On this day in 1912, The Royal Flying Corps was founded. By the end of the year it had a…
April 12. A day of NI gallantry – WW1 VC; WW2 MM, and 2 DSMs. Roll of Honour
For his actions on Messines Ridge on 12 April 1915 Private Morrow of The Royal Irish Fusiliers was awarded the…
April 11. Battle of Arras. Roll of Honour
The 1917 Battle of Arras is reflected in today’s Roll of Honour. Two Ballymena men, John Agnew serving with Royal…
April 10. WW1 NI Nurses lost in hospital ship. WW2 costly NI naval contact with Narvik. Roll of Honour
Eveline Dawson from Ballymena, a Matron, and Hugh McGee from Ballycastle, a Corporal in the Medical Corps, died when the…
April 9. Loss of RN’s first aircraft carrier Hermes. Roll of Honour
Robert McConnell, son of a former minister of Megain Memorial Presbyterian Church, Belfast, and a brilliant QUB student, died in…
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