Northern Ireland

B17 transports whiskey to France

B17's were based outside Ballymena in N Ireland.My Father, now working in the North of Ireland became...

Fatal Blasts so Close By

We went up Cave Hill mostly because if the enemy had come across and saw the mills they'd bomb them......

1940 Blenheim Crash, RAF Aldergrove

Richie Edwards from Prestatyn, now living in Rhyl tells us of his memories in the RAF in Northern Ireland....

A Huge Welcome Home for Three Soldiers

We had to get a train into Larne to York Road in Belfast, and then from York Road to Limavady and then...

Army: The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Facts and figures Unit name: The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Unit nickname: The Skins Force: Army...

Americans training for D-Day

If they did Church parades it would have been in the centre of Coleraine, away from our farm or countryside...

Hostile Homecoming for Irish veterans

But after that event, people was afraid to say “my father, my brother, was in the British Army”...

From Seattle to Langford Lodge

During WW2 the USAAF used other bases at Knutts Corner and Langford lodge, for Seaplanes coming in from...

The Yanks in Belfast

No, it did not. Bananas was unheard of. But I remember them, marches building, facing St Patrick's...

Lisburn Factories

Barbour's Mill in Lisburn was a large mill, which contributed greatly to the war effort by making such...

From Belfast To Lurgan - An Evacuees Story

There were a lot of evacuees in Lurgan....

Gallaghers’ underground air-raid shelter

My daddy took us all up, me and my mummy and the children. And we used to go to the Cave Hill...

Tragedy in the Belfast Blitz

My chum's father stayed with her and promised not to leave her, while a whole street was evacuated,...

Belfast Lough, a carpet of ships

Just before the Invasion of Normandy, as it turned out, I turned 16, and cycled out of Belfast and up the...

Air Raid Precautions in Ballymena

The schools were reinforced with steelwork, steel sponsons, and the window panes were treated with plastic...

Disruptions to Daily Life

She was confused, because the blitz ended for Belfast in 1941. I remember the Doughboys coming from Ormeau...

Eisenhower in Belfast

I saw Eisenhower on the corner of Chichester Street in Belfast... At that time I think the Americans were...

1/5th of a mars-bar

He was in the RUR - he was in the Highland Light Infantry first, then went into the RUR. We had an...

A training accident ...

He met his pals in Belfast before he can home and he had an epileptic fit on the bus. All friends from...

Evacuated from Belfast

I remember bringing auld cattle in for the farmer. Maghera … Wherever the authorities put you....

Derry a Busy Place in Wartime

I was only a boy when the war started but I remember when there were hundreds of boats lined up along here....

Lurgan, County Armagh, N.Ireland

My lasting Memory of World War II is……being in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland at the...

Blitzed into a Tent

My earliest memory of the War was the Monday night, the first night of the 1941 Blitz of Belfast... We went...

Learn Direct Scotland Champion Learner 2005

This is a picture of ex World War II veteran Alistair Kynoch Urquhart on the University Learn Direct...

VE Day parties

Lemonade and buns and stuff, nothing much. Some places they cooked nice scones, wheaten bread and so on....

The Blitz Budgie

When we came back, the budgie was still whistling....