Skip to content

Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

Tag: Bessbrook

January 31. Emma Duffin VAD in both world wars. Battle of May. Roll of Honour

Emma Duffin who served as a VAD Nurse in both world wars is remembered today. She served in WW1 military … More

Battle of May, Bessbrook, Emma Duffin, Newry, Portstewart, Submarines WW1, VAD

October 24. Motor sportsman was WW1 flyer. Roll of Honour

Leslie Porter was a keen car racer and international rally driver from Derry and Holywood who became an RFC pilot … More

Chaplain, Downpatrick, Londonderry, Bessbrook, Holywood, Armagh, HMS Eclipse, RFC, Tynan

July 14. Portrush naval doctor who sailed Atlantic both ways single-handed. Roll of Honour

The story in war and peace of Joe Cunningham, a doctor born in Portrush on this day in 1916. Joseph … More

Bessbrook, Bushmills, Carrickfergus, Cunningham, Hill 60, No 3 Commando, Portrush, RNVR Surgeon

June 10. King in D-Day speech called nation to prayer. Roll of Honour

William Kirkpatrick from Coleraine fell in the Machine Gun Corps in 1916. Contemporary local newspaper reports tell how James Todd … More

Australia, Bangor, Bessbrook, Coleraine, Cookstown, Hillsborough, RUC

May 28. Dunkirk evacuations day 2. Roll of Honour.

Coleraine born Thomas Moody died in 1918 serving with New Zealand infantry and is named on his country’s Roll of … More

Belfast, Bessbrook, Crete, Downpatrick, Dunkirk, Hillsborough, HMS Orion, Lisburn, Narvik, Newry

February 12. Belfast WRNS and ‘The Cruel Sea’. Roll of Honour

Two women are among the WW2 fatalities for 1944. Army nurse Beatrice Dowling from Bessbrook died in England. Ethel Hunter, … More

Bangor, Bessbrook, Carrickfergus, New Zealand, North Irish Horse, Printing Trades, QUB, The Cruel Sea

Daily posts

Remembrance NI

Remembrance NI
February 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  
« Jan    

Remembrance Ni

Remembrance Ni
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Follow Following
    • Remembrance NI - Every day is a Remembrance Day
    • Join 69 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Remembrance NI - Every day is a Remembrance Day
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar