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

May 07 – Roll of Honour

Edward Mockler serving with Canadian infantry was injured at the Battle of Langemarck, died of his wounds in Cambridge, and…

Three men serving with the Royal Naval Division fell in Gallipoli in 1915. Since 1916 three Royal Irish Riflemen rest…

Today’s Roll reflects aspects of WW2. Local Gunners killed in an air raid on the Twin Islands in Belfast and…

Today’s Roll begins with two Royal Marines from Belfast and Derry named on the Helles Memorial at Gallipoli. Our veteran…

Today’s Roll includes accounts of a number of remarkable people. Sir Robin Kinahan served with a Belfast gunner unit in…

Eight brothers from Downpatrick served in WW1, four survived. In WW2 one of Fermanagh’s military families lost a Gunner son…

A WW1 record gives insight to the service of a NI man with the Australian Imperial Force in France. WW2…