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

April 29. Remembering Sir William Tyrell, RBAI, British Lion, Army and RAF doctor. Roll of Honour

This is the anniversary of the death in 1968 of Air Marshall William Tyrell who served in both wars as … More

The 54 page Roll of Honour today is dominated by the records of some of those who fell in 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 1917 … More

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