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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

Tag: Ballymoney

March 18. The fighting McAtamneys from Carrickfergus. Roll of Honour

Photo – In 1944. Anzio area, Italy. Men from 2 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers reading the sports newspaper “Ireland’s Saturday Night”. … More

Anzio, Ballymoney, Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Highland Light Infantry, Inniskilling Fusiliers, Langemarck, McATAMNEY, Qua Iboe, QUB, RBAI, Tyne Cot

March 15. Father of actor and WW2 paratrooper Richard Todd. Roll of Honour

Among those remembered today is Andrew Todd, a medical officer from Derry and Moneymore, who served in both World Wars. … More

Ballymoney, Brookeborough, Cassino, Coleraine, D-Day, Derry, HMS Vortigern, Moneymore, Operation Dickens, RichardTodd

March 12. Three Belfast brothers die for freedom. Roll of Honour

Thomas Davison of Spamount Street, Belfast, died today in 1915 serving with the Royal Irish Rifles in France. The GPO … More

Ballycastle, Ballymoney, Canada, Clogher, Dungannon, India, Islandmagee, Japan, Yokohama

February 15. Newry pilot’s DFC and 14 bombing missions. Roll of Honour

Robert Nugent from Belfast had served in China and India before WW1. He took part in the Gallipoli landing before … More

502 (Ulster) Squadron, Aldergrove, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Canada, China, Gallipoli, India, Killyleagh, Newry, Omagh, RAF Reserve, Singapore

January 25. Queen’s female medical trailblazer. HMS Laurentic lost off Swilly. Roll of Honour

Isabel Addley Tate is the only woman to be named on the Queen’s University War Memorial. Isobel Addey Tate lived … More

Ballymoney, Bangor, Carrickfergus, Derry Gunners, Gilford, HMS Olympus, Laurentic, Murmansk convoy, QUB trailblazer, QUB woman medic, Tate

January 20. Indebtedness to local journalism and an Irish nun. Roll of Honour

Local journalists have left insights of two servicemen in today’s Roll of Honour. On this day in 1916, a Ballymoney … More

Ballymoney, Bushmills, Hill 286, Londonderry, Ploegsteert, Tunisia

December 29. International rugby players served in WW1. Roll of Honour

On the first day of 1912 Ireland played France at rugby in Paris. Irish internationals Alfred Squire Taylor, William Victor … More

Ballymoney, Bushmills, Irish rugby, Japanese POW, Randalstown, Rugby internationals

December 22. MP & TA officer mostly responsible for Caubeens. Roll of Honour

Photo – Portrait of Bala Bredin wearing a caubeen. In 1915 Ballymoney man Archie Nichol one of the Royal Dublin … More

Ballymoney, Caubeen, Dublin Fusiliers, Irish rugby, QUB, RAMC, Randalstown, Stephenson

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