Ballymena Military Policeman had prior skills for seagoing and jungle warfare – Ballyclare brothers in tanks of the Irish Guards…
World War 2 : Life stories – 2
Fleet Air Arm pilot from Fermanagh fought with RAF in Battle of Britain – North Antrim Marine five years a…
World War 2 Life stories – i
– Church bell ringer awarded DSM for his part in naval action – WW2 veteran enabled The Ports to do…
Places and Remembrance – WW1 Cullybackey
Cullybackey, a County Antrim village, and the townlands around it, (Craigs, Hillmount and Harperstown, a sub-section of Hillmount), highlight the…
Ubique – Ulster Gunners in WW2 – Part 1
Colonel Jimmy Hughes – Colonel Harry Porter- The wartime service of the 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment – Some 8th…
Lisburn’s service at sea in WW2
Amazing accounts of five who served and a roll of honour of those from the area who served in the…
Belfast origin of Remembrance silence
The Old Contemptibles of Ypres 1914, their Belfast standard bearer, the origin and choosing of the Unknown Warrior
Local Newspapers and the Great War – 7
Reports from 25th October 1918 to 8th November 1918, during which there were 10 fatalities in the Ulster Division from…