There are ten members of the Royal Irish Rifles remembered in today’s Roll of Honour. On the night of the … More
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August 23. Ballymena RAF operator intercepted German and Japanese signals. Roll of Honour
In 1914 the Battle of Mons began. It was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force in the … More
August 20. Kilrea’s Royal Flying Corps ace. Inst/QUB doctor died at Dieppe. Widow’s war service. Roll of Honour
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” — Winston Churchill offered … More
August 14. Two north coast men lost in WW1 spy ship HMS Prize. Roll of Honour
The five entries in today’s Roll for 1915 are of casualties in Gallipoli. Included in the entry of Inniskilling Fusilier … More
August 1.Context of actions: Passchendaele WW1 and Magennis VC WW2. Roll of Honour
A look at two contexts – that in which James Magennis won the VC in WW2 and Passchendaele, the Third … More
April 6. WW2 battles in Tunisia and Burmah. Roll of Honour
Charles Ervine MC died this day in 1916 serving with the Tyneside Irish battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. He was … More
March 30. The last NIH horse man. Coleraine medical pioneer. Roll of Honour
Ham British Cemetery contains 485 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. Amongst the graves are those of … More
March 13. Larne naval surgeon became postwar medical pioneer. Roll of Honour
The wreckage of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is towed past the Palace of Westminster in London,1940. In 1915 two … More
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