Remembering Wm Tyrell a 19-year-old WW1 air ace; WW2 – Belfast Gunners at Dunkirk; RUR on D Day +3
Tag: Dunkirk
June 01 – Roll of Honour. Three NI officers after Jutland
After Jutland Commander Edward Bingham VC from Bangor, Captain Herbert Meade, DSO from Ballynahinch, and Commodore Frederic Charles Dreyer from … More
May 30 – Roll of Honour. Coastal Command ace honoured by RAF
In May 2020 a new Poseidon aircraft is named for Ulsterman Terence Bulloch, the top U-boat hunter of WW2. Dunkirk … More
May 29 – Roll of Honour. Dunkirk Memorial
Dunkirk Memorial to unknown. Seven NI men on today’s Roll who fought the rearguard action in 1940 to Dunkirk have … More
May 28 – Roll of Honour. Dunkirk evacuations day 2
Le Grand Hasard Military Cemetery near Dunkirk was created after WW1. Two further plots of 138 burials were added to … More
May 27 – Roll of Honour. Dunkirk evacuations day one
On this day: The first day of evacuations from Dunkirk in 1940. The sinking of the Bismarck in 1941. Two … More
The Royal Ulster Rifles at Dunkirk
Bala Bredin’s recollections; How 338,000 Allied troops were saved in ‘miracle of deliverance’; 40 Facts about Dunkirk; The Dunkirk Memorial
May 26 – Roll of Honour. Dunkirk. Bismarck
The Roll today reflects the battles around Dunkirk in 1940. Among the fallen are men from Coleraine, Dollingstown, Doagh, Enniskillen, … More
