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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

December 14. Cairncastle and Cobh link to Free French navy. Roll of Honour

The legendary Ulster soldier Lt Colonel Blair “Paddy” Mayne, DSO and three Bars, and a founding member of the Special…

Blair Mayne, Branlebas, Dungannon, Free French, MacManaway, Paddy Mayne, SAS

December 13. Royal Marine honoured for service in the Battle of the River Plate. Roll of Honour.

Samuel Trimble, a Sergeant in the Royal Marines, was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal for his service in HMS Achilles…

Ballyclare, Dungannon, North Irish Horse, River Plate, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

December 12. Two outstanding WW2 aviiators. St. Souplet. Roll of Honour

Harden Scott from Bangor was one of the first officers in the Royal Flying Corps. He received his Military Cross…

aviation, Ballycastle, Bangor, Casement, Coookstown, history, HMS Furious, HMS Glorious, HMS Sea Eagle, Portstewart, RAF, Torrens-Spence, WW2, wwii

December 11. Sir William Whitla, medical titan and generous benefactor. Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll is a reminder that a country’s response to war is the sum total of the contributions of individuals.…

Castledawson, HMS Lady Shirley, RNPS, Sir William Whitla

December 10. Force Z, Repulse and Prince of Wales sunk. Roll of Honour

This day in 1941 fifteen men from NI were lost in HMS Repulse and eleven in HMS Prince of Wales…

Death Railway, Derry, Force Z, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Repulse, Jaoan POW, Limavady, Londonderry, Mossley, Stewardstown

December 9. Actions in Balkans, Jerusalem and Operation Compass. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1915 Hugh McAuley from Ballycastle, Patrick Carson from Cookstown, and Charles Doherty from  Fivemiletown, died in…

Armagh Observatory, Jerusalem, Operation Compass, Sir Patrick Moore, Western Desert

December 8. Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914. Roll of Honour

Today in 1914 a Royal Navy squadron defeated a German force off the Falkland Islands. Charles Stuart from Ballymena was…

Ballymena, Falkland Islands 1914, Hamburg, Moy, Scarva, South Africa

December 7. Anniversary of Pearl Harbor annd Cockleshell Heroes. Roll of Honour

Visitors to a Pearl Harbor memorial can view vessels sunk in the attack by Japan on this day in 1941.…

Army Nursing, Cambrai, Clogher, Corry DFC, Gallipoli, Pearl Harbor, Portstewart

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