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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

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May 22. 17 from NI lost in sinking of the Mighty G, HMS Gloucester. Roll of Honour.

Seventeen Naval personnel from throughout NI died in HMS Gloucester when ‘the Fighting G’ was dive-bombed following the German airborne … More

Ballycastle, Bushmills, Coleraine, Crete, Gallipoli, Gurkha Bluff, HMS Drake, HMS Gloucester, Rathlin

May 21. Bangor brothers costly RAFVR service. Roll of Honour.

Geoffrey and Eric Bowman from Bangor were both lost flying with RAFVR in WW2. In 1941 William O’Neill from Limavady … More

Balymena, Bangor, Beamish, Bowman, Bushmills, Greencastle, HM Submarine P 514, Limavady, Portrush

May 4. D – Day dodgers celebrate in Italy. Roll of Honour

Two entries in today’s Roll remember NI men who served with Canadian forces in WW1. James Stewart from Lisburn was … More

Australia, Axis surrender, Bushmills, Canada, D Day Dodgers, HMS Sheffield, Irish Brigade, Portstewart

March 26. Whippet tanks released against German Spring Offensive. Roll of Honour

Six sons of the Thompson famiy of Gobnascale House, Londonderry served in WW1. William who died this day in 1918 … More

Bushmills, CAI, Coleraine, Cookstown, Gilford, HMS Jaguar, Londonderry, North Irish Horse, Tanks, Whippet

March 9. Coleraine Gunner’s romance in Brussels. Roll of Honour

Today is the wedding anniversary of Harry Stockman, a Coleraine Gunner, who married in Brussels on 09/03/1946 and brought his … More

Aldergrove, Belsen, Bushmills, HMS Asphodel, Killead, Londonderry, Molyneaux, North Irish Horse, Tobermore, Tunisia

March 6. Antrim man was army’s top medic. Roll of Honour

This day in 1915 pub owners in Lurgan stated they would decline to serve soldiers in uniform with liquor in … More

Antrim, Bushmills, Cookstown, Lurgan, Malone Golf Club, Portrush, Portstewart, RAMC

February 20. The UVF prepare for war. Roll of Honour

Read contemporary newspaper reports here on the UVF’s preparation for WW1 in 1914 and how Lisburn was the guinea pig … More

Annalong, Armagh, Australia, Bushmills, Canada, Canberra, HMS Warwick, Islandmagee, Lisburn, Londonderry, North Irish Horse

February 4. Bushmills aircrew’s Squadron link with Limavady. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1945, British Commandos were engaged in a 24 hour hand-to-hand battle for Hill 170, Kangaw, Burma. … More

Algeria, Bushmills, Canada, Coalisland, Fivemiletown, HMS Sphinx, Kesh, Limavady

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