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August 9. SAS men from NI executed by the Gestapo. Roll of Honour

Tod Barker from Cookstown and Billy Young from Randalstown of the Special Air Service Regiment were murdered by the Gestapo … More

Cookstown, Gestapo, Inniskillings, Potijze Chateau Wood Cemetery, Randalstown, SAS, SAS executions

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

Armagh, Cattanach, Cookstown, Dungannon, Lisnaskea, Naples, Normandy, Paras, VC, WRNS

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

Armagh, Belfast Gunners, Burmah, Cookstown, HMS Trollope, Londonderry, Moira, Randalstown, SAS, SAS murdered

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

Bomber Command, Coleraine, Cookstown, Derry, Dromore, El Alamein, Hillsborough, Lisburn, Whiteabbey

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

Broughshane, Cambes Woods, Cookstown, D-Day, Dunmurry, Enniskillen, Lisburn, Lissan House, Newry, Normandy, RUR, VAD

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

Australia, Bangor, Bessbrook, Coleraine, Cookstown, Hillsborough, RUC

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

Canada, Cookstown, Dunkirk, Equatorial Guinea, Jerrettspass, Portstewart, RAF, Royal Ulster Rifles

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

Ballymena, Bolitho, Cookstown, Dambusters, Lisburn, Norway

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