Remembrance NI
Every day is a Remembrance Day
Tag: RUR
June 19 – Belfast RAF man spent year with Belgian underground. Roll of Honour
After crash landing, Belfast RAF man stayed from May 44 until liberation with Belgian underground. In 1944 two from North Irish Horse die in Assisi, Italy, and five RUR die in Normany. Officer’s tribute to Jimmy McBride, eleven years service with RUR. Photo –…
June 18 – Banker joins Gunners. Airborne D-Day Padres. Roll of Honour
George Johnston left banking in Dungannon for UK, Egypt, Italy, and Greece with the Gunners. Meet two D-Day airborne padres from Fermanagh and the Coldstream Guards Musical Director from Annalong.
June 17 – From Rifleman to RSM of RUR via Ranville, the Ardennes and Korea. Roll of Honour
From RUR airborne on D Day to Korea, the record of RSM William McConnell. In today’s Roll – The Ni men lost in Lancastria in 1940; the largest loss of life in sinking. Lisburn Medic who defied WW1 dangers
June 10 – King in D-Day speech calls nation to prayer. Roll of Honour
RUR prepares for war. A Rifleman is always a Rifleman. Patrick Clark a commando from Bessbrook. An Australian gunner from Finaghy dies as a Japanese POW. Andrew Henry RAF from Cookstown dies over D Day+ territory
June 09 – Tandragee sailor’s six crossings to D Day beaches. Roll of Honour
Remembering Wm Tyrell a 19-year-old WW1 air ace; WW2 – Belfast Gunners at Dunkirk; RUR on D Day +3
June 08 – HMS Glorious lost in airstrikes off Narvik. Roll of Honour
Men from NI were in HMS Glorious sunk by gunfire off Narvik. Photo – The graves of several Royal Ulster Riflemen from conflict after D Day are in War Cemetery at Bayeux, Normandy.
The Royal Ulster Rifles at Dunkirk
Bala Bredin’s recollections; How 338,000 Allied troops were saved in ‘miracle of deliverance’; 40 Facts about Dunkirk; The Dunkirk Memorial
July 21 – Roll of Honour
Memorial to those who fought at Guillemont and Ginchy and to all Irishmen who gave their lives in WW1. The records of seven who died on this day – three of the RUR in Normandy.
