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Every day is a Remembrance Day

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January 22. Belfast bishop on the beach as battle for Anzio begins. Roll of Honour

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

Anzio, Bishop, Burma, Kangaw, Masonic, Myanmar, RBAI

January 19. Italy Battle Honour for Inniskillings. First losses of 502 Sqdn. Roll of Honour

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

Christie, Cookstown, Inniskilling Fusiliers, RBAI, Strandtown

January 12. QUB students – WW1 Naval apprentice surgeon;   WW2 Airborne law student warrior. Roll of Honour.

Two clergy sons feature in today’s Roll. Louis Story was an Instonian whose father was rector of Christ Church, Durham … More

Airborne, Dennison, HMS Opal, Inst, Magilligan, Portstewart, QUB, RBAI, Storey

January 4. Canadian sapper from Derry rests on home ground. Roll of Honour

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

Londonderry, RBAI, Belfast, Libya, Canada, Engineers

December 31. Internal explosion sinks HMS Natal. Roll of Honour

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

Banbridge, HMS Natal, Japanese POW, Londonderry, Masonic, Portadown, RBAI, RFC

December 2. Faughs five miles behind enemy lines. Roll of Honour

In today’s Roll, there is a most moving excellent read – a letter written by James McKinstry to his mother … More

Berlin, Carrickfergus, HMS Caroline, Italy, Lisburn, Newry, Portstewart, RBAI, Rostrevor, Tunisia, Vancouver

November 28. Brook Purdon, army medicine and rugby. Roll of Honour

Major General William Brook Purdon’s distinctive career covered rugby, medicine, war service, and public service. He played rugby for Inst … More

Ballycastle, Ballymoney, London Irish, Purdon, QUB, RBAI, Upperlands

November 23. Medical mother’s war service after son’s death. Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll reflects hard times for the Inniskillings in the Munich Trench in 1916 and for the Royal Irish Rifles … More

Cambrai, Castledawson, Downpatrick, Elizabeth G Bell, HMS Rawalpindi, Munich Trench, Portadown, QUB, RBAI

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