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March 10. Neuve Chapelle – Royal Irish Rifles first major WW1 action. Roll of Honour

Today in 1915 the 1st Royal Irish Rifles took part in their first major action. The Battle of Neuve Chapelle … More

D-Day, Neuve Chapelle, Palestine, Tunisia

July 7 – NI WRNS who plotted D-Day landings. Roll of Honour

Army medical officer Alfred Thompson (Inst and QUB) was recommended for the Victoria Cross for his actions this day in … More

Caen, D-Day, WRNS

June 19 – Belfast RAF man spent year with Belgian underground. Roll of Honour

After crash landing, Belfast RAF man stayed from May 44 until liberation with Belgian underground. In 1944 two from North … More

19 June, Ballymena, Belfast, Bessbrook, D-Day, June 19, Newtownards, Normandy, RUR

June 18 – Banker joins Gunners. Airborne D-Day Padres. Roll of Honour

George Johnston left banking in Dungannon for UK, Egypt, Italy, and Greece with the Gunners. Meet two D-Day airborne padres … More

18 June, Airborne, Chaplain, Chaplains, D-Day, Douglas, Fermanagh, McMurray-Taylor, Normandy, Padre, RAChD, RUR

June 13 – D Day Rifleman’s campaigns. Roll of Honour

Stanley Burrowes from Lisburn saw action on the Normandy beaches, in Cambes Woods, and Denmark. Three women are in today’s … More

Cambes Woods, D-Day, Enniskillen, Lissan House, Normandy, VAD

June 09 – Tandragee sailor’s six crossings to D Day beaches. Roll of Honour

Remembering Wm Tyrell a 19-year-old WW1 air ace; WW2 – Belfast Gunners at Dunkirk; RUR on D Day +3

8th. HAA Regiment, Belfast Gunners, D-Day, Dunkirk, RFC, RNAS, Royal Artillery, RUR, Tyrell

June 08 – HMS Glorious lost in airstrikes off Narvik. Roll of Honour

Men from NI were in HMS Glorious sunk by gunfire off Narvik. Photo – The graves of several Royal Ulster … More

Bayeux, D-Day, HMS Glorious, Messines, Narvik, Normandy, RUR

June 06. D-Day – Rifleman Billy Moore. Roll of Honour

D-Day through the accounts of Lisburn’s Billy Moore of the Royal Ulster Rifles. Eisenhower’s Message to the forces. Stats in … More

D-Day, Eisenhower., Montgomery, Royal Ulster Rifles

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