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Remembrance NI – Every day is a Remembrance Day

Every day is a Remembrance Day

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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 7. Biggest bomb before the atomic at Battle of Messines 1917. Royal Ulster Rifles on D Day +1. Roll of Honour

The Battle of Messines in WW1 had the biggest bomb before the atom bomb. Fusilier John Meeke of the unionist … More

Bayeux, D Day, Meeke, Messines, Redmond, Royal Ulster Rifles, RUR

June 6. NI at D-Day – Billy Moore RUR, William Cooke RN – Eight crossings to D Day beaches. Roll of Honour

D-Day eye-witness accounts from Lisburn’s Billy Moore of the Royal Ulster Rifles and from Tandragee, William Cooke, Royal Navy. Eisenhower’s … More

D-Day, Eisenhower, Kelleher, Montgomery, Portstewart, Royal Ulster Rifles

June 3. Jerrettspass Flight Sergeant’s fatal crash in Equatorial Guinea. Roll of Honour

Today’s Roll includes John Gray from Portstewart who died of wounds in Egypt in 1915 after service with Royal Marines … More

Canada, Cookstown, Dunkirk, Equatorial Guinea, Jerrettspass, Portstewart, RAF, Royal Ulster Rifles

February 27. NI navy men in Battle of Java Sea. Roll of Honour

John McGuckin from Cookstown, Thomas Graham, and William Hagan from Belfast were lost in HMS Jupiter in 1942 in the … More

Banbridge, Cookstown, HMS Jupiter, HMS Repulse, Royal Ulster Rifles, Submarine Tigris, Tandragee

February 5. RUR intelligence gathering. Roll of Honour

In 1916 two Belfast men, Alfred Bingam and Joseph Jones of the Royal Irish Rifles, 9th Btn, died on the … More

Coleraine, Lurgan, Royal Ulster Rifles, Veterans

January 24. Anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill. Roll of Honour

In 1917 Sub-Lieutenant Ian McCormick fell serving with the Royal Naval Division at Beaumont Hamel on the Somme. The twenty-one-year-old … More

Beaumont Hamel, Churchill, Royal Naval Division, Royal Ulster Rifles, Tunisia

October 28. Ulster Riflemen and their Canadian comrades. Roll of Honour

Today is the anniversary of the founding regiment of the Royal Marines. Alex Apsley from Ballymena died in the RM … More

Ballymena, Canada, Coleraine, Glarryford, Japanese POW, London Irish Rifles, Maghera, Moira, RAMC, Royal Artillery, Royal Marines, Royal Ulster Rifles

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