Tod Barker from Cookstown and Billy Young from Randalstown of the Special Air Service Regiment were murdered by the Gestapo … More
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July 7 – NI WRNS who plotted D-Day landings. Roll of Honour
Joan Mary Cattanach a Northern Ireland wartime Wren who plotted the D-Day landings in a secret underground tunnel later trained … More
July 6. SAS from NI murdered by Gestapo. Story from Somme. Roll of Honour
Four SAS men from NI were murdered by the Gestapo in France on this day in 1944. They were L/Cpl … More
June 28. Belfast Squadron Leader flew 87 operations, 25 over Berlin. Roll of Honour
Five NI men died this day at Gallipoli in 1915, three were Inniskillings – Henry Black from Derry, Hugh McBride … More
June 13. D Day RUR Rifleman’s campaigns. Roll of Honour
Stanley Burrowes from Lisburn saw action on the Normandy beaches, in Cambes Woods, and Denmark in WW2. In 1916 two … More
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
June 3. Jerrettspass Flight Sergeant’s fatal crash in Equatorial Guinea. Roll of Honour
Today’s Roll includes John Gray from Portstewart who died of wounds in Egypt in 1915 after service with Royal Marines … More
May 17. Derry’s Dambuster. Roll of Honour
Flight Sergeant Richard “Dickie” Bolitho who was born in Londonderry in 1920 was a casualty in the Dambusters’ Operation Chastise … More