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Every day is a Remembrance Day

Tag: Gallipoli

May 22. 17 from NI lost in sinking of the Mighty G, HMS Gloucester. Roll of Honour.

Seventeen Naval personnel from throughout NI died in HMS Gloucester when ‘the Fighting G’ was dive-bombed following the German airborne … More

Ballycastle, Bushmills, Coleraine, Crete, Gallipoli, Gurkha Bluff, HMS Drake, HMS Gloucester, Rathlin

May 6. Memorials to global service of NI men in WW2. Roll of Honour

John Bew from Carrickfergus, William Bunting from Lurgan, and David McGowan from Newry, serving with the Royal Naval Division fell … More

Bangor Grammar School, Canada, Carrickfergus, Egypt, Gallipoli, HMS Gloucester, HMS Illustrious, India, Lurgan, Madagascar, Netherlands, Newry, QUB, RBAI, Royal Naval Division, Tunisia

April 28. MM for Ballymena man in Canadian forces Vimy Ridge action. Roll of Honour

In 1915 William Gilliland, a young Lieutenant from Londonderry, in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died at Gallipoli. By December the … More

Ballymena, Dunmurry, Gallipoli, Glentoran, Hillsborough, Londonderry, Marines, Vimy Ridge

April 26. Irish VCs at Gallipopli and France. Gunners in Greece and Egypt WW2. Roll of Honour

This day in 1915, William Cosgrove, an Irishman, won the VC as the Allies land at Gallipoli (Painting) and two … More

Bangor, Canada, Cosgrove VC, Dungannon, El Alamein, Gallipoli, Greece, Gunners, Holywood, Londonderry, Morrow VC, Newtownards, VC

April 25. Northern Ireland’s Anzacs. Roll of Honour.

Six men from NI died on this day in Gallipoli in 1915 – Alexander Martin from Magheragall, Lisburn, was serving … More

Anzac Day, Auckland, Ballymoney, Coleraine, Gallipoli, Holywood, Lisburn, Magherafelt, Toronto, Tunisia, VC

February 25. Five Belfastmen lost in HMS Maharatta on Murmansk convoy. Roll of Honour

On this day, in 1944 five men from Belfast were lost when the destroyer HMS Mahratta was torpedoed and sunk … More

Ervin Wilson, Gallipoli, HMS Mahratta, McDowell MC, Murmansk

February 15. Newry pilot’s DFC and 14 bombing missions. Roll of Honour

Robert Nugent from Belfast had served in China and India before WW1. He took part in the Gallipoli landing before … More

502 (Ulster) Squadron, Aldergrove, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Canada, China, Gallipoli, India, Killyleagh, Newry, Omagh, RAF Reserve, Singapore

February 13. Channel Dash and Dresden. Roll of Honour

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

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

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