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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

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May 28. Dunkirk evacuations day 2. Roll of Honour.

Coleraine born Thomas Moody died in 1918 serving with New Zealand infantry and is named on his country’s Roll of … More

Belfast, Bessbrook, Crete, Downpatrick, Dunkirk, Hillsborough, HMS Orion, Lisburn, Narvik, Newry

May 17. Derry and Portrush’s Dambuster. Roll of Honour

Flight Sergeant Richard “Dickie” Bolitho who was born in Londonderry in 1920 was a casualty in the Dambusters’ Operation Chastise … More

Ballymena, Bolitho, Cookstown, Dambusters, Lisburn, Norway

May 16. Festubert, the single worst day for Inniskillings’ losses. Roll of Honour

In 1915 at Festubert 265 Inniskillings died and 390 were injured in a hard-fought battle. The Roll of Honour today … More

Cassino, Dervock, Festubert, Inniskillings, Lisburn, Toomebridge

May 10. Invasion of Holland. Westminster parliament bombed. Roll of Honour

The first airborne operation in history took place this day in 1940 when Germany invaded the Netherlands. A year later … More

Bangor, Cookstown, Derry, Eisenhower, Gurkhas, Holland invasion, Imphal, Lisburn, Netherlands, TCD

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, Kinahan, Lisburn, Portrush, VE Day

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

April 21.QUB Professor determines cause of death of Red Baron. Rangoon memorial records hard fought ground for Inniskillings. Roll of Honour

Thomas Sinclair, Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University, Belfast, in April 1918, found himself at the centre of one of … More

Burmah, Coleraine, Inniskilling Fusiliers, Lisburn, Myanmar, Rangoon Memorial, Red Baron, Tobermore

April 13. Foundation of RFC. HMS Repulse survivor. Roll of Honour

On this day in 1912, The Royal Flying Corps was founded. By the end of the year it had a … More

Annsborough, Antrim, Armagh, Coleraine, Dunmurry, HMS Repulse, Lisburn, Londonderry, RFC, Royal Flying Corps

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