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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

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May 17. Derry’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. Inniskillings major losses at Battle of Festubert. 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 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

May 7. Final day of WW2 in Europe. Lusitania sinking WW1. Roll of Honour

This is the anniversary of the 1945 cessation of war in Europe. The German Chief-of-Staff, General Jodl, signed Germany’s unconditional … More

Canada, Crumlin, Derry, German surrender WW2, Gilford, Japanese POW, Lisburn, Lusitania, Portrush, Ulster Division

May 4. D – Day dodgers celebrate in Italy. Roll of Honour

The first two entries in today’s Roll remember NI men who served with Canadian forces in WW1. When they fell, … More

Australia, Axis surrender, Bushmills, Canada, D Day Dodgers, HMS Sheffield, Irish Brigade, Lisburn, Magherafelt, Portstewart

May 2. Belfast Gunner became city’s mayor. Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll includes accounts of a number of remarkable people. In WW1 William Kane of Londonderry, a member of the … More

Anzio, Ballymena, Burma, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Jersey, Kinahan, Lisburn, Londonderry, Portadown, RBAI, Royal Artillery, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

April 25. Northern Ireland 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. Rangoon memorial records hard-fought ground for Inniskillings. Roll of Honour

Thomas McIlroy prior to enlisting lived in Upperlands and worked at William Clark & Sons Ltd. In 1917 he was … More

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

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