William Cross was one of the significant number of NI men who served with forces from the British Empire in…
June 09 – Tandragee sailor’s six crossings to D Day beaches. Roll of Honour
Remembering Wm Tyrell a 19-year-old WW1 air ace; WW2 – Belfast Gunners at Dunkirk; RUR on D Day +3
June 08 – HMS Glorious lost in airstrikes off Narvik. Roll of Honour
Men from NI were in HMS Glorious sunk by gunfire off Narvik. Photo – The graves of several Royal Ulster…
June 07 – Battle of Messines 1917. RUR on D Day +1
The Battle of Messines in WW1 had the biggest bomb before the atomic bomb. Fusilier John Meeke of the unionist…
June 06. D-Day – Rifleman Billy Moore. Roll of Honour
D-Day through the accounts of Lisburn’s Billy Moore of the Royal Ulster Rifles. Eisenhower’s Message to the forces. Stats in…
June 05 – NI men who died with Kitchener. Rome freed. Roll of Honour
The 12 NI men who died with Kitchener in HMS Hampshire in 1916 included a young doctor who was the…
June 04 – Ballymena RAF brothers in arms. Roll of Honour
In WW1 three Navy men in an infantry role who died at Gallipoli are recalled today. In 1917 William Andrews…
The Royal Ulster Rifles at Dunkirk
Bala Bredin’s recollections; How 338,000 Allied troops were saved in ‘miracle of deliverance’; 40 Facts about Dunkirk; The Dunkirk Memorial