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Every day is a Remembrance Day

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May 8. VE Day. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1915, 17,000 troops recruited in NI paraded through Belfast. In 1916 four NI men in the … More

Augher, Clogher, Fivemiletown, HM Submarine Olympus, Kinahan, Lisburn, Portrush, Tunisia, VE Day

April 19. Remembered at Tyne Cot and Rangoon. Roll of Honour

A newspaper report from 1915 gives an insight into the establishment of a reserve battalion for the Inniskilling Fusiliers. Five … More

Ballycastle, Dungannon, Fivemiletown, Lions, Magherafelt, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Rugby, Tyne Cot, VC, Whitehead

March 23. Admiral McClintock of Ballycarry; Fusilier Morrow of Fivemiletown. Roll of Honour

Admiral John McClintock of Ballycarry retired on this day in 1929, completing 55 years service including four years continuous sea … More

Admiral, Ballycarry, Commando, Fivemiletown, HMS Laforey, Londonderry, McClintock, Palestine, Portadown, Pozieres

March 14. Two WW1 Royal Navy officers honoured. Roll of Honour

Last Post sounding at the Menin Gate Memorial,Ypres, where the names are engraved of two Royal Irish Fusiliers in today’s … More

Ballymena, Canada, Clogher, Dungannon, Fivemiletown, Last Post, Menin Gate, Newtownards, Portstewart, Tobermore

February 21. The Battle of Verdun starts. Roll of Honour

Alex Hill from Whiteabbey was lost in HMS Princess Alberta in 1917 when she hit a mine in the Agean … More

Londonderry, Alamein, Belfast Gunners, New Zealand, Australia, Irish Guards, Fivemiletown, Dunmurry, HMS Princess Alberta

February 13. Channel Dash and Dresden. Roll of Honour

In 1917 William McKeague from Bushmills died at St Quentin in Belgium. James Hackett from Fivemiletown is remembered in Chungkai … More

Bangor, Burma, Donaghadee, Dresden, Fivemiletown, Gallipoli, Irvinestown, Japanese POW, Newtownards

February 4. Bushmills aircrew’s Squadron link with Limavady. Roll of Honour

On this day, 04/02/1945, British Commandos were engaged in a 24 hour hand-to-hand battle for Hill 170, Kangaw, Burma. The … More

Algeria, Bushmills, Canada, Coalisland, Fivemiletown, HMS Sphinx, Kesh, Limavady

January 27. Inniskilling Fusiliers losses in both wars this day. Roll of Honour

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day – On this day in 1943 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps. By … More

Aughnacloy, Bellaghy, Brookeborough, Drumbeg, Fintona, Fivemiletown, Holocaust, Inniskilling Fusiliers, Maghera

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