Today in 1915 there was a large turn out at Limavady Railway Station when a party of the 10th (Service) … More
Tag: Japanese POW
December 5. Choir welcome for returned Japanese POW. Rolls of Honour
Today in 1945 the choir of Dunmurry welcomed home their member Billy Coates who had been a Japanese Prisoner of … More
December 1. The largest cemetery on the Somme. Roll of Honour
Serre Road Cemetery No 2, is the largest CWGC cemetery on the Somme with over 7,000 men buried there. The … More
November 9. Belfast Cenotaph. Roll of Honour
The four WW1 men remembered today rest in Egypt, Belgium and England. Five RAF crew reflect the demands made in … More
August 27 – Belfast tourist attraction was a troop ship. Roll of Honour
Featuring the Nomadic troopship and the Derry Inniskillings war drum. Today’s Roll is province-wide: men from Ballymena, Doagh, Lisburn, Randalstown, … More
August 19 – Northern Ireland’s Japanese POWs. Roll of Honour
George Thompson from Castlerock survived shipwreck in HMS Exeter and became a Japanese POW. Alix Joy from Belfast was lost … More
December 24 – Roll of Honour
In today’s Roll – Ruth Dickson from Moy who was a nursing sister in Singapore. She survived a ship sinking … More
August 5 – Roll of Honour
The war graves of two who fell on this day are in Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, Italy. They are from … More
