Remembrance NI
Every day is a Remembrance Day
Tag: D-Day
June 19 – Roll of Honour
CWGC Poperinge New Military Cemetery. Remembering those who died on this day.
June 18 – Northern Ireland at D Day
12. Two of the NI Padres in Normandy – The Reverend James McMurray-Taylor served with the RUR (6th Airborne Division) and The Reverend James Douglas died serving with The Wiltshire Regiment
June 10 – Northern Ireland at D Day
5. – The fifth in a series about NI people on D Day. William James “Billy” Moore served with 2nd Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles, landing on Sword Beach on 6th June 1944 after enlisting at the age of 18.
June 9 – Northern Ireland at D Day
4. – The fourth in a series about NI people on D Day. Richard Keegan from Lurgan served with 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles who were addressed by General Sir Bernard Montgomery from the bonnet of a jeep, after carrying out an inspection of…
June 7 – Northern Ireland at D Day
2 – The second in a series about NI people on D Day. Peter McCambridge of Ballymena won his DCM on the ‘Longest Day’ – but he had, in fact, dropped into Normandy in the late evening of June 5, 1944. Photo – The…
JUNE 6 – Northern Ireland at D Day
1 – William Cooke – Eight crossings to D Day beaches by Tandragee sailor. The first in a series about NI service people.
