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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

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March 15. Father of actor and WW2 paratrooper Richard Todd. Roll of Honour

Among those remembered today is Andrew Todd, a medical officer from Derry and Moneymore, who served in both World Wars. … More

Ballymoney, Brookeborough, Cassino, D-Day, Derry, HMS Vortigern, Moneymore, Operation Dickens, RichardTodd

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

On March 10,1915 the 1st Royal Irish Rifles took part in their first major action. The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, … More

Arctic convoys, Ballymena, Cookstown, D-Day, Jerusalem, Neuve Chapelle, Omaha beach, Palestine, Tunisia

June 19. Belfast RAF man’s year with Belgian underground. Roll of Honour

After crash landing in Belgium, Belfast RAF man, Walter Berry, stayed from May 44 until liberation with the underground. In … More

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

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, Belsen, D-Day, 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 in WW2. In 1916 two … More

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

June 8. HMS Glorious lost in airstrikes off Narvik. Roll of Honour.

Today’s Roll reflects the Battle of Messines in WW1, the sinking of Glorious, and Acasta by gunfire in two hours … More

D-Day, HMS Acasta, HMS Glorious, Messines

June 6. NI at D-Day – Billy Moore RUR & William Cooke RN – eight crossings to D Day beaches . Roll of Honour

D-Day eye-witness accounts from Lisburn’s Billy Moore of the Royal Ulster Rifles and from Tandragee, William Cooke, Royal Navy. Eisenhower’s … More

D-Day, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Royal Ulster Rifles

June 5. NI men died with Kitchener. Rome freed. D-Day weather. Roll of Honour.

Robert Doherty, of Coleraine was among the twelve NI men who died with Kitchener in HMS Hampshire in 1916. They … More

D-Day, HMS Hampshire, Kitchener, Orkney, QUB, Rome liberation

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