Last Post sounding at the Menin Gate Memorial,Ypres, where the names are engraved of two Royal Irish Fusiliers in today’s…
March 13. Larne naval surgeon became postwar medical pioneer. Roll of Honour
The wreckage of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is towed past the Palace of Westminster in London,1940. In 1915 two…
March 12. Three Belfast brothers fell for freedom. Roll of Honour
Thomas Davison of Spamount Street, Belfast, died today in 1915 serving with the Royal Irish Rifles in France. The GPO…
March 11. Son of Prime Minister of Northern Ireland killed in Tunisia. Roll of Honour
Nine fatalities from HMS Bayano, torpedoed on this day in 1915, are interred in N Ireland. On the same day…
March 10. Neuve Chapelle – Royal Irish Rifles first major WW1 action. Roll of Honour
On March 10,1915 the 1st Royal Irish Rifles took part in their first major action. The Battle of Neuve Chapelle,…
March 9. Coleraine Gunner’s romance in Brussels. Roll of Honour
Today is the wedding anniversary of Harry Stockman, a Coleraine Gunner, who married in Brussels on 09/03/1946 and brought his…
March 08. Portaferry navy flyer designed winning yachts. Roll of Honour
James Braithwaite a Company Serjeant Major from Lisburn and John Carruthers a private with links to Ballycastle who fell in…
March 7. Major step towards WW2, the Rhineland invasion. Roll of Honour
This day in 1916 Samuel Beattie from Ballymena, a member of the Harryville Company of the Ulster Volunteer Force, was…
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