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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

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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 17. HMS Caroline officer’s route to Colditz. Roll of Honour

In today’s Veterans Roll read how on this day Sir Ivan Ewart’s saga of war service took a dramatic turn. … More

Arctic convoy, Carrickfergus, Colditz, Ewart, HMS Gurka, HMS Matabele, Killyleagh, Magheramourne, Newtownards, North of Ireland Yacht Club, RNAS, Rockport

December 2. Faughs five miles behind enemy lines. Roll of Honour

In today’s Roll, there is a most moving excellent read – a letter written by James McKinstry to his mother … More

Berlin, Carrickfergus, HMS Caroline, Italy, Lisburn, Newry, Portstewart, RBAI, Rostrevor, Tunisia, Vancouver

October 31. Sailors in the trenches 1. Roll of Honour

Many men from every part of NI served with the Royal Naval Division in WW1. They took part in every … More

Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Derry, Limavady, Muckamore, RND, Royal Naval Division

September 18. North Irish men at Arnhem. Roll of Honour

A Roll today of thirty men from NI who died at Arnhem includes James Boyd from Portstewart serving with the … More

Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Q ship, Arnhem, Market Garden, Portstewart, Parachute

July 16. Death of last Tsar. Advent of nuclear bomb. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1918, the Russian Royal Family was murdered. On the same day, the parishes of Carrickfergus and … More

Carrickfergus, Castledawson, Caterpillar Valley, Hiroshima, New Zealand

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 14. RASC trek from Sword Beach via Caen to Belsen. Roll of Honour

In 1916 Hugh Davison from Belfast fell with Canadian Infantry in Belgium. He was one of three brothers to die … More

Army, Banbridge, Battle of Britain, Belsen, Canada, Carrickfergus, Chaplains, Coleraine, D-Day, Palestine, RUR

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