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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

Tag: Normandy

August 4. War starts 1914 Germany invades Belgium. Roll of Honour

On this day after being refused free passage to France, Germany invaded Belgium in 1914, violating the Treaty of London. … More

16th (Irish), 36th (Ulster), Australia, Ballymoney, Castlederg, Crossgar, Lisburn, Normandy, North Irish Horse, Sicily

July 18. MC for Sir John Gorman on his first day in action. Roll of Honour

In 1944 Old Portoran John Gorman was awarded the Military Cross for action in a tank battle in Normandy. Eliza … More

Aughnacloy, Gorman, Normandy, Portora, Royal Navy Nursing, Sicily, Strabane

July 13. Belfast husband awarded VC today in 1945. Roll of Honour

Ted Chapman from Wales survived the Belfast Blitz with his sweetheart. They married. He won the VC in Germany. Read … More

Ballynahinch, Chapman VC, Crumlin, Devonshire Cemetery, Devonshires, Dungannon, Normandy, Sicily, VC

July 9. HMS Vanguard sunk by accidental explosions. Roll of Honour

16 men from Northern Ireland were among the 845 who died in HMS Vanguard in 1917. John Adams and C … More

Coleraine, HMS Vanguard, Normandy, North Irish Horse, Operation Husky, Sicily

July 7 – NI WRNS who plotted D-Day landings. Roll of Honour

Joan Mary Cattanach a Northern Ireland wartime Wren who plotted the D-Day landings in a secret underground tunnel later trained … More

Armagh, Cattanach, Cookstown, Dungannon, Lisnaskea, Naples, Normandy, Paras, VC, WRNS

June 22. Dunkirk Gunner who joined the RAF. Roll of Honour

Gunner Ernie Harwood escaped Dunkirk in a fishing boat in 1940 and joined RAF. On this day Barbarossa, the German … More

Dunkirk, Japanese POW, Normandy, Rangoon, UlsterTower Thiepval

June 19. Belfast RAF man spent year with Belgian underground. Roll of Honour

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

Normandy, North Irish Horse, RAF, Royal Ulster Rifles, RUR

June 13. D Day RUR Rifleman’s campaigns. Roll of Honour

Stanley Burrowes from Lisburn saw action on the Normandy beaches, in Cambes Woods, and Denmark in WW2. In 1916 two … More

Broughshane, Cambes Woods, Cookstown, D-Day, Dunmurry, Enniskillen, Lisburn, Lissan House, Newry, Normandy, RUR, VAD

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