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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

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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, Banbridge, Battle of Britain, Belsen, Canada, Carrickfergus, Chaplains, Coleraine, D-Day, Palestine, RUR

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

Today’s Roll of over 50 names of NI servicemen reflects the Battle of Messines in WW1, the sinking of Glorious, … More

Antrim, Cloughmills, D-Day, HMS Acasta, HMS Glorious, Lisburn, Messines, Whitehead

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, Kelleher, Montgomery, Portstewart, 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

June 4. Ballymena and Coleraine brothers in arms WW2. Roll of Honour

William and Thomas Rowan from Ballymena joined the RAF in WW2. On this day in 1942, Thomas died when his … More

Ballymena, Bomber Command, Brigadier Pat Scott, Churchill, D-Day, Dunkirk, Gallipoli, HMS Foylebank, Irish Division, Midway, Rome

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

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