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Every day is a Remembrance Day

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March 20. Tommy Jess, Lisburn survivor of HMS Lapwing.Roll of Honour

HMS Lapwing was sunk on a convoy to Murmansk in 1945. Three men from NI were lost. Tommy Jess (photo) … More

Ballymena, Bangor, Coleraine, Downpatrick, Enniskillen, HMS Lapwing, Murmansk, VAD, YMCA

February 2. Foundation of RAF Regiment. Roll of Honour

This week in 1942 the Royal Air Force Regiment was formed by Royal Warrant. Their motto, Per Ardua – Through … More

Ballymena Academy, Bushmills, Cullybackey, Downpatrick, India, QUB, RAF Regiment, RAMC

January 9. Launch of a legend – the Avro Lancaster. Roll of Honour

This day in 1918 HMS Racoon sank off Donegal. Four men from Belfast and Edward Roberts from Downpatrick were amongst … More

Ballymena, Dambusters, Downpatrick, HMS Racoon, Lancaster, Rathlin

December 23. Voluntary ambulance driver and Naval air pilot.                        Roll of Honour

Thomas Malcolmson Greeves (Photo) was a son of a well-known Belfast linen family. He served with the Friends Ambulance unit … More

Downpatrick, Dungannon, Greeves, HMS Zulu, RNAS, South Down Militia. Coleraine

November 23. Medical mother’s war service after son’s death. Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll reflects hard times for the Inniskillings in the Munich Trench in 1916 and for the Royal Irish Rifles … More

Cambrai, Castledawson, Downpatrick, Elizabeth G Bell, HMS Rawalpindi, Munich Trench, Portadown, QUB, RBAI

November 22. Birthday of a Belfast Battle of Britain pilot. Roll of Honour

Hugh Heron AFC was born in Belfast and left Inst to join the RAF. He took part in the Battle … More

Ballintoy, Ballymena, Battle of Britain, Cambrai, Dervock, Downpatrick, RBAI

November 20. Crouy British Cemetery and a Canadian VC. Roll of Honour

Today is the anniversary of the marriage of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. On this … More

Albert Medal, Bushmills, Cambrai, Dollingstown, Downpatrick, HM The Queen, HMS Khandahar, Lurgan, Portstewart

October 24. Motor sportsman was WW1 flyer. Roll of Honour

Leslie Porter was a keen car racer and international rally driver from Derry and Holywood who became an RFC pilot … More

Armagh, Bessbrook, Chaplain, Downpatrick, HMS Eclipse, Holywood, Londonderry, RFC, Tynan

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