Remembrance NI
Every day is a Remembrance Day
Tag: Bomber Command
September 6 – Roll of Honour
By the age of 22 a young Belfast RAF officer educated at Methody and Queen’s had been decorated three times for his service with Bomber Command. This is the anniversary of his death over Germany. Six of the twelve on today’s roll are infanteers…
Armagh air crewman amongst first fatalities of RAF in WW2
RAF crest and eagle above the gateway portico and the Per Ardua ad Astra Star above the central tower at the Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey – a memorial dedicated to some 20,456 men and women from air forces of the British Empire…
May 30 – Downpatrick air gunner was on first 1,000 bomber raid
Over 30 operations, shot down and became POW. Marched across Germany he was repatriated in 1945
