Two Church of Ireland chaplains played a key role in developing the new museum of forces’ chaplaincy which includes a…
December 5. Church choir welcome for returned Japanese POW. Rolls of Honour
Today in 1945 the choir of Dunmurry Parish Church welcomed home their member Billy Coates who had been a Japanese…
December 4. North Irish Horsemen become Fusiliers. Limavady’s Arctic Star. Roll of Honour
Robert Kerr from Derrygonnelly, Enniskillen, died this day in 1918, in a Hamburg hospital, after the Armistice which brought about…
October 16. Victims of 1918 HMS Otranto disaster at Islay buried in Belfast. Roll of Honour
Edwin Edmonds from Belfast serving in the Royal Navy perished in HMS Otranto on this date in 1918. Hundreds of…
May 13. 23 from NI lost in HMS Goliath at Gallipoli. Roll of Honour
The sinking of HMS Goliath off Cape Helles in 1915 dominates today’s Roll. 570 of the 750 men were lost…
April 2. Royal Ulster Rifles advance into Germany in WW2. Roll of Honour
Hugh McCory from Shankill, Belfast, Peter Little from Coagh,and John Cousins from Dollingstown died this day in WW1. Samuel Clayton…
February 5. RUR WW2 intelligence gathering. Roll of Honour
In 1916 two Belfast men, Alfred Bingam and Joseph Jones of the Royal Irish Rifles, 9th Btn, died on the…
September 1. First Ulsterman to win VC in WW1. Church militant. Roll of Honour
One of the most famous Batteries in the Royal Regiment of Artillery is L Nery Battery. David Nelson was the…
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