May 6. Memorials to the global service of NI men in WW2. Roll of Honour

John Bew from Carrickfergus, William Bunting from Lurgan, and David McGowan from Newry, serving with the Royal Naval Division fell … More

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

Photo – In 1944. Anzio area, Italy. Men from 2 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers reading the sports newspaper “Ireland’s Saturday Night”. … More

On this day in 1940 Serjeant James McCrae from Dungannon, serving with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, died at Dieppe. In … More

Company Serjeant-Major James Scott of the Royal Irish Rifles, 14th (Young Citizens) Btn. kept a diary during the Great War. … More

Today’s Roll includes accounts of former Inst student Ralph Ireland a young RN officer lost in heavy seas in 1917and … More

Joseph Dougherty from Newbuildings emigrated to Canada. A Sapper with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he died this day in 1918 … More

During the afternoon of the 30th December 1915, HMS Natal, under the command of Captain Eric Back, blew up at … More