January 17. Ship losses and Colditz. Roll of Honour

In today’s Veterans Roll read how on this day Sir Ivan Ewart’s saga of war service took a dramatic turn. … More

January 11 Newcastle man in crew when I of M ferry made naval air history. Roll of Honour

On 11/01/1915 Lt Colonel Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne was born in Newtownards. Royal Navy seaplane carrier HMS Ben-My-Chree (Woman of my … More

Remembered today are Ruth Dickson and Frances Mayne. Ruth from Eglish served as a nurse in WW1. In 1923, she … More

Photo – Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy where rest the remains of Lance Corporal William McBride from Broughshane, who served … More

HRH Princess Royal at the location where seven men from Northern Ireland died on this day in 1939 when the … More

On this day in 1915 Rifleman John Hanna from Whitehouse was wounded and brought in by the enemy, sadly he … More

In 1914 a QUB Lecturer in Archaeology and Ancient History was killed on the second day of the Battle of … More

After crash landing in Belgium, Belfast RAF man, Walter Berry, stayed from May 44 until liberation with the underground. In … More