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

March 7. Major step towards WW2, the Rhineland invasion. Roll of Honour

This day in 1916 Samuel Beattie from Ballymena, a member of the Harryville Company of the Ulster Volunteer Force, was … More

Today’s Roll of Honour includes the records of a Belfast officer William Lyons who was adjutant of the Royal Welsh … More

William Cross was one of the significant number of NI men who served with forces from the British Empire in … More

William McGrath was the first of two Coleraine brothers to die in WW2. A Captain in the Royal Engineers and … More

Photo – In Boulogne War Cemetery in Normandy many of the gravestones are laid flat due to the sandy soil. … More

In 1916 two Belfast men, Alfred Bingam and Joseph Jones of the Royal Irish Rifles, 9th Btn, died on the … More

Excerpts from The Witness, a weekly Presbyterian Church newspaper, describe the growth of the UVF in 1913 and the military … More