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November 3 remembrance ni Moy man may be Northern Ireland’s first submariner loss HM Submarine D5 was lost on 03/11/1914. In the ship was 29 year old Fred Bradley. He had previously served during the Boer War. He had also served in HMS Hyacinth in the Somali Expedition. HMS D5 was a British D class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow. D5 was laid down on 23/2/1910, launched 28/08/1911 and was commissioned 19/02/1911. Page 1
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Moy man may be Northern Ireland’s first submariner loss HM Submarine D5 was lost on 03/11/1914. In the ship was 29 year old Fred Bradley. He had previously served during the Boer War. He had also served in HMS Hyacinth in the Somali Expedition.
HMS D5 was a British D class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow. D5 was laid down on 23/2/1910, launched 28/08/1911 and was commissioned 19/02/1911.
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One source states she was sunk by a German mine laid by SMS Stralsund after responding to a German attack on Yarmouth by cruisers. The bombardment, which was very heavy and aimed at the civilian population, was rather ineffective, due to the misty weather and only a few shells landed on the beaches at Gorleston. In response, the submarines D3, E10 and D5 - the latter being under the command of Lt.Cdr. Godfrey Herbert, were ordered out into the roadstead to intercept the enemy fleet.
Another source states HMS D5 was sunk by a British mine two miles south of South Cross Buoy off Great Yarmouth in the North Sea. 20 officers and men were lost. There were only 5 survivors including her Commanding Officer.
Fred was the son of William and Jane Bradley. He was born about 1885 in County Donegal. The 1911 census shows Frederick’s father had retired and was receiving a Royal Irish Regiment pension. The family was then living in Charlemont near the Moy, Tyrone. Frederick was married to Lillian J. Bradley, Stonehouse, Plymouth. He is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial Panel 3 and Moy War Memorial.
On this Day - November 3 1915
The Germans attack in Champagne and penetrate French trenches on Hill 199.
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1940
U99 sinks armed merchant-cruiser Laurentic off Iceland.
Greek troops trap the Italian 3rd Alpine Division taking 5,000 prisoners. British troops arrive in Greece.
1941
Germans troops capture Kursk.
Off Greece, HMS Proteus makes first radar attack by a sub, damaging Italian tanker Tampico.
General Auchinleck is forced to postpone Operation Crusade for one week so as to enable the 1st South African Division, which had recently arrived from Abyssinia to under go more training.
Admiral Yamamoto’s plan to attack Pearl Harbor is approved.
1942
A British merchant seaman is hanged at Wandsworth for supplying the Germans with shipping information.
In an interview with American journalists, Stalin describes US military aid as of little effect.
Rejecting out of hand Field Marshal Rommel’s proposal to withdraw the Afrika Korps, now down to about 40 tanks, to the Fuka line, Hitler orders him to stand and fight.
On Guadalcanal, US Marines take Point Cruz and land at Koli Point.
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Catania War Cemetery - Five Battalions of the London Irish Rifles, Skins, and Faughs spent time around here from July to October '43. Nearly 200 of the men who served earlier in Sicily rest with 2000 other men at Catania. General Montgomery later described the Irish Brigade's successful assault on Centuripe as "impossible”. Quis Separabit - Faugh a Ballagh - Nec Aspera Terrent.
1943
38 (Irish) Brigade. 6 Innisks at San Salvo: “36 Brigade was to take the San Salvo ridge & then advance on Vasto, while 11 Brigade make for Cupello. Tanks were allotted to us for this attack. It was decided that the Skins should take a share in the plan to capture San Salvo”
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“Captain Percy Hamilton, 6 Innisks: “When the barrage opened, there was a flicker of flame across the whole skyline behind us. We got up &, in a moment, were running towards the hill shouting, ‘Come on the Skins’ & reached the objective to find David Schayek & some of his chaps”
“The Skins did magnificently but they lost some outstanding chaps. Hobo Crocker & Basil Hewitt were killed. Hobo was a great loss - wounded & decorated for great gallantry at Centuripe. Basil Hewitt was one of the best subalterns in the Brigade.”
The USAAF launch a 400-bomber daylight raid on Wilhelmshaven with 600-fighter escort. At night the RAF drop over 2,000 tons of bombs on Dusseldorf in 27 minutes.
A massive Russian offensive from Dnieper bridgehead North of Kiev erupts.
Nazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival in occupied Poland, killing 42,000 Jews.
Heavy USAAF air attacks begin on Rabaul.
The Second Battle of Kiev began on the Eastern Front.
More than 18,000 Jewish prisoners were shot to death in a single day at the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland, in the Aktion Erntefest. The Erntefest was the traditional German “Harvest Festival”, and dance music was played over loudspeakers “to drown out the sounds of the killing and the dying”. The extermination of the estimated 18,400 members of the camp was carried out by order of the new camp commandant, German Lt. Colonel Martin Weiss, as part of Operation Reinhard.
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Adolf Hitler issued Führer Directive Number 51, anticipating an invasion of Nazi-occupied France by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, in what Hitler described as “an Anglo-Saxon landing”. Troops and reinforcements were transferred to Western Europe, and the Anglo-Saxon landing would take place on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The Raid on Choiseul ended indecisively.
1944
The 20th Gebirgsjaeger Army evacuates the mineral rich Petsamo region of northern Finland.
Roll of Honour - November 3 Representing their comrades who died on this day
1918
+DORNAN, G
Army Service Corps. 64th Remount Sqdn. R/358427. Died 03/11/1918. Age 49. Husband of Sarah Dornan, of 10, Stanleys Walk, Londonderry. Londonderry City Cemetery
+McLOUGHLIN, Joseph
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 6th Btn. Private. 20688. Died 03/11/1918. Served previously with the Connaught Rangers (20691). Born in Fivemiletown and living there when he enlisted in Enniskillen. Templeux-Le-Guerard British
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Cemetery, France. Fivemiletown WM. Fivemiletown War Dead Book.
+MERCIER, Herbert Blenner-Hassett,
Royal Air Force, 55th Squadron. formerly Royal Irish Rifles. Lieutenant. Died 03/11/1918. Age 20. Member of the QUB Training Corps 1916 - 17. Son of Claude Cochrane Mercier and Jennie F. Mercier, "Redgarth," Douglas Rd., Cork. Native of Limerick. Charmes Military Cemetery, Essegney. QUB WM
1939
+FEE, Thomas Hugh Cecil HicklandRNR. Lieutenant (E). HMS Rawalpindi. Died 03/11/1939. Age 28. Born 01/01/1911. Son of David A Fee, Baythorpe, Holywood. Liverpool Naval Memorial. Campbell College 1729.
+KANE, Denis Dermot
RAF. Corporal. Wireless Operator/Air Gunner. 543862. Died 03/11/1939. 240 Sqdn. He flew with RAF 240 Squadron on missions over the North Sea in the early months of the war. RAF 240 Squadron was a flying boat squadron that reformed at RAF Calshot, Southampton, Hampshire on 30/03/1937. Between 12/08/1939 and 04/11/1939, the squadron operated from RAF Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. He died off the Norwegian Coast when his Saro London flying boat disappeared on a reconnaissance flight. Also on board were Aircraftman 1st Class C Wilson, Leading Aircraftman AJ Saffin, Acting Flight Lieutenant JMH Sinclair, Pilot Sergeant TE Page, and Aircraftman 1st Class JC Lewis.
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Denis was the son of Captain Richard Rutledge Kane MC. The Captain was the 4th Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1921 to 1929. His mother was Ethel Emma Kane (née Thurston). His name features on his grandfather Reverend Dr. Richard Rutledge Kane’s headstone in Belfast City Cemetery alongside that of Bryan Desmond Uprichard Kane. The headstone, dedicated by the Orangemen of Belfast describes Richard Rutledge Kane as a “faithful pastor, gifted orator, and loyal Irish patriot”. He had been County Grand Master of Belfast for 13 years. Denis Dermot Kane is named on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey,Panel 2
+McCANN, JamesRN. AB. P/229803. Died 03/11/1940. Age 60. HMS Patroclus. Joined RN aged 14 and had 35 years service including service in HMS Superb in WW1. A member of the Fleet Reserve he was in the merchant service before being recalled. Son of Henry and Sarah McCann. Brother of Harry McCann, Colinward St., Belfast
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+BARNES, George Ernest
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 6th Btn. Fusilier. 6986086. Died 03/11/1943. Age 20. Son of John and Mary Jane Barnes, of Maguiresbridge, Co. Fermanagh. Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy
+JEFFERS, Alexander
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 6th Btn. Fusilier. 14415058. Died 03/11/1943. Age 19. Son of Alexander and Annie Jeffers, of
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Coagh, Co. Tyrone. Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy
Skew Bridge War Cemetery Dardanelles.
+McKERNIN, Harry Francis
RAFVR. Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner). 1079134. Died 03/11/1943. Aged 23. 57 Sqdn. Son of H. and Minnie McKernin, of Belfast, Heverlee War Cemetery, Vlaams - Brabant, Belgium
+McKIMM, Robert
Royal Ulster Rifles, 2nd Btn. The London Irish Rifles. Rifleman. 7021409. Died 03/11/1943. Aged 21. Son of Robert and Martha McKimm, of Belfast. Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy
+NEILL, WILLIAM FREDERICK
RAF. Sergeant (Flight Engineer). 531666. Died 03/11/1943. Aged 25. 57 Sqdn. Son of William Frederick and Margaret Neill, of Belfast; husband to Mary Elizabeth McCombe Neill. Heverlee War Cemetery, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
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+COLLINS, Ernest PatrickRoyal Engineers, 234 Field Coy. Sapper. 2001570. Died 03/11/1944. Aged 25. Son of Joseph John Collins and of Rose Collins (nee O'Connor); husband of Annie Florence Collins, of Ballymena. Roosendaal-En-Nispen Roman Catholic Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
ROLL OF HONOUR ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION
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+ORR, David Edward RMLI. Private. CH/340 (S). Chatham Btn RND. Died 08/05/1915. Cadet QUB OTC 1913 - 15. MEF 06/02/1915-08/05/1915. Son of the late William John and Margaret Orr, 89 Channing Street, Belfast. Helles Memorial. McQuiston Memorial - PCI RH. QUB WM
+PAUL, JosephRMLI. Private. PLY/17320. Plymouth Btn RND. Died 14/7/1915. Age 18. Embarked Royal Marine Brigade 09/05/1915 (joined Battalion at Cape Helles 30/05/1915). Son of Agnes Paul, Bann St., Old Park Rd., Belfast, and the late Robert Paul. Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey (including Gallipoli)
+PITMAN, GeorgeRMLI. Private. PLY/17041.1st RM. Battalion. RND. Died 28/04/1917. Embarked Royal Marine Brigade (Deal Battalion) 20/11/1914 ; MEF 28/02/1915.Son of Maggie Pitman, Craigmore St., Belfast. Arras Memorial.
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+QUINN, JohnRMLI. Sergeant. 2nd Marine Battalion, B Company. RND. Died 28/04/1917. Age 28. Plymouth Battalion at Dunkirk & Defence of Antwerp 1914 ; Landed at Ostend 27th to 31/08/1914 ; Defence of Antwerp 19/09/1914-12/10/1914 ; Promoted Paid Lance Sergeant at Malta 14/02/1915 ; Promoted Acting Sergeant at Mudros 09/03/1915 ; MEF 06/02/1915-27/04/1915. Sprained ankle (slight) to Hospital Malta ; From Malta to Alexandria 06/09/1915 ; Rejoined Battalion Cape Helles 17/09/1915 ; To 11th Casualty Clearing Station 16/10/1915. Enteritis ; To Stationary Hospital Mudros Dysentery 17/10/1915 ; To Convalescent Depot Mudros 26/10/1915 Dysentery ; To ANZAC Base W.Mudros 11/11/1915 ; Rejoined Battalion Cape Helles 02/12/1915 ; Embarked Mudros 07/05/1916, disembarked Marseille 12/05/1916 ; 10 days Leave to UK 21/09/1916 ; Rejoined Battalion France 01/10/1916 ; To 1st (RN) Field Ambulance 08/10/1916 Abscess right thigh ; Rejoined Battalion 14/10/1916 ; Attached to Town Major, Bernaville 20/11/1916 for Clerical Duties ; Rejoined Battalion 16/12/1916 ; To 2nd (RN) Field Ambulance Abscess right thumb & Reverted to Corporal 30/01/1917 & on to 3rd (RN) Field Ambulance Divisional Rest Station same date ; Rejoined Battalion & promoted Acting Sergeant 19/02/1017 vice Matthews wounded. Son of David and Jane Quinn, The Cottages, Comber. Arras Memorial. First Comber - PCI RH. Comber WM +QUINN, HenryRMLI. Private. PLY/17909. 1st RM Btn. RND. Died 13/11/1916. Age 19.
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Embarked Royal Marine Brigade 16/02/1916 (per HMT "Olympic" & arrived Mudros 24/02/1916). Sister, Mrs. A. Foy, 21 Thomas St., Newry, Ireland.Theipval Memorial
+ROCKS, JosephRNVR. Petty Officer. Clyde Z4397. Drake Battalion, RND. Died 19/05/1917. Enlisted 12/05/1915 ; Draft for BEF (Bomber) 10/07/1916, joined Howe Battalion 13/11/1916-14/11/1916. GSW left leg, Invalided to UK 19/11/1916 ; Draft for BEF 19/03/1917, joined Drake Battalion 11/04/1917-19/05/1917. A Labourer. Born 01/02/1895. Son of Michael Rocks, 55 Edward St., Lurgan.Husband to Bridget, Calders Buildings, Corbie Hall, Bo'ness. Arras Memorial, Bay 1, Pas de Calais, France. Lurgan WM
+SCOTT, JamesRMLI. Private. PLY/16410. Plymouth Btn. RND. Died 4/3/1915 at Kum-Kale. Age 19. A Joiner. Born Belfast 30/06/1896. 1914 Star issued to father 19/02/1919, Clasp, BWM & Victory medal not issued/claimed. Son of William and Margaret Scott, 42 Cheviot Ave., Belfast. Helles Memorial. McQuiston Memorial - PCI RH
+SCOTT, ThomasRMLI. Private.CH/225/S. Died 13/11/1916. Chatham Battalion, 1st Royal Marine Battalion MEF 06/02/1915-18/09/1915. Illness. Rejoined 1st Royal Marine Battalion 11/11/1915-13/11/1916. Son of James Scott, Hydepark, Mallusk. Church of the Holy Evangelists CarnmoneyWM.
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+SEYMOUR, AndrewRMLI. Private. PLY/17738. 2nd RM. Battalion, RND. Died 14/06/1916. Embarked Royal Marine Brigade 03/10/1915 (joined Battalion at Cape Helles 21/10/1915). Sister, Miss Jennie Seymour, 6 Coolbeg St., Donegal Rd., Belfast. Bois-de-Noulette British Cemetery, Aix - Noulette, Pas de Calais
+SLOAN, JohnRMLI. PLY/177737. 2nd RM Battalion, RND. Died 13/11/1916. Embarked Royal Marine Brigade 18/08/1915 (joined Battalion at Cape Helles 02/09/1915). Son of Mrs. Jane Sloan, of 4 Ballycarry St., Belfast. St.V.B. issued to Widow. France.
+SMYTH, WilliamRMLI. Private. CH/960(S). 1st RM Btn RND. Died 28/04/1917. Enlisted 25/08/1915 ; Embarked Royal Marine Brigade 16/02/1916 (per HMT "Olympic" & arrived Mudros 24/02/1916), joined 1st Royal Marine Battalion at Stavros 28/02/1916-03/10/1916 sick, rejoined 1st Royal Marine Battalion 25/11/1916-16/12/1916 sick, rejoined 1st Royal Marine Battalion 23/02/17-28/04/1917. Son of John Smyth; husband to Annie Smyth, Mackey St., Belfast. Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France +SPRATT, ThomasRND. Stoker 1st Class. Dev/298606. Nelson Battalion. Died 15/07/1915 of wounds in 11th Casualty Clearing Station (GSW Abdomen, admitted 14/07/1915). Enlisted in RN 27/09/1901. Enrolled in RFR 27/09/1913 ; Nelson Battalion D/751 15/09/1914-15/07/1915. Born Banbridge. Brother of Mrs. Anne Patterson,of 15 (later 30) Witham St., Belfast.
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1914 Star issued to eldest brother, Mr. A. Spratt, 19/06/1920. Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey
+STANFIELD, William HughesRMLI. Private. CH/282(S). Chatham Battalion, RND. Died 14/05/1915. Age 30. Died of wounds aboard Hospital Ship "Letitia" & taken ashore at Gibraltar. Enlisted 19/09/1914 ; Chatham Battalion MEF 06/02/1915 -about 01/05/1915 BW Cheek & left shoulder, Invalided to UK from Alexandria 13/05/1915. Born Belfast 11/01/1885. Son of William and Mary Josephine Stanfield. Next-of-Kin: Aunt, Miss Maggie Stanfield, 29 Pine St., Belfast. Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery
+STERLING, JamesRMLI, Private. PLY/13644. 2nd RM Battalion, RND. Died 03/08/1916. Age 30. Killed by accidental explosion of a Stokes Ammo Dugout. Enlisted 01/03/1906 age 17 ; Draft for BEF 28/06/1915, joined Plymouth Battalion 18/07/1915 -18/08/1915 BW Forehead, rejoined 2nd Royal Marine Battalion 26/10/1915-17/06/1916 Struck off Strength 2nd Royal Marine Battalion on joining 1st Brigade Light Trench Mortar Battery. CWGC has no record of attachment to 188th Brigade Light Trench Mortar Battery ; 1st Royal Marine Battalion War Diary 3/8/16 reads:- "Front Line Trenches Angres II Sector. An explosion occurred in a Dugout in which was stowed about 100 rounds of Stokes Gun Ammo. The Dugout was completely wrecked & 1 Corporal & 4 Privates of the 188th Trench Mortar Battery were killed. No knowledge as to how explosion occurred." ; Son of Elizabeth J. Sterling, of 2 Well St., Woodstock Rd., Belfast, and the late Robert Sterling. Tranchee de Mecknes Cemetery, Aix - Noulette, Pas de Calais, France
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+SWAIN, William SteadmanRNVR. RND.AB. Mersey Z/57. Howe Btn. Died 5/7/1915. Age 23. Killed in action (Camp shelled). Enlisted 08/09/1914. Howe Battalion 'C' Company 09/02/1915-05/07/1915. A Ropemaker. Born Belfast, 14/04/1892. Son of Henry and Annie Swain, of 70, Monfa Road, Orrell, Bootle, Liverpool, Lancashire. Resided with father. Skew Bridge Cemetery, Turkey.
+WAUCHOPE, George William AlfredRNVR. Sub-Lieutenant. Anson Btn. RND. Died 13/11/1916. Missing, assumed killed in action. Age 32. Formerly ex-London Z/455 Chief Petty Officer RNVR. Enlisted 21/09/1914 ; Benbow Battalion D/4 05/03/1915-12/06/1915 transferred to Anson Battalion, 08/11/1915 promoted Temporary Sub Lieutenant RNVR Anson Battalion. A Fitter G.N. Railway Ireland. Born 18/03/1884. Son of the late F Joseph and Mrs. J. Wauchope, Daisy Hill, Newry and 41 The Mount, Belfast.. Theipval Memorial, Pier 1A. Belfast Central Station WM. McQuiston Memorial - PCI RH. First Newry - PCI RH +WARNOCK, RobertRMLI. Private. PLY/16727. Plymouth Battalion, RND. Died 04/03/1915 Missing, later reported killed in action at Kum Kale . Age 18. Enlisted Belfast 19/06/1914 ; Plymouth Battalion at Dunkirk 1914 ; Plymouth Battalion No.3 Company MEF 06/02/1915-04/03/1915. A Joiner. Born. Belfast 05/12/1895. Son of the late Hugh and Margaret Warnock,12 Westcott St., Connswater, Belfast ; 1914 Star issued to father 25/7/19, BWM & Victory medal not issued/claimed. Helles Memorial
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+WILSON, GeorgeRN Brigade. Private. Died in hospital in Mesopotamia 12/09/1917. Ex-Clyde 2/2404 AB RNVR, enlisted 16/05/1913 ; Anson Battalion A/113 22/08/1914-27/02/1915 discharged from Anson Battalion Medically Unfit ; Re-enlisted in Royal Field Artillery at Glasgow. A Twine Dresser. Born Dublin 08/04/1894 ; Home address: c/o Mrs. Patten, 69 Bouverie St., Port Glasgow ; Next-of-Kin: John Wilson, Taylor's Row, Coleraine.Woodbine Terrace, Coleraine. Terrace Row - PCI RH
+YOUNG, HenryRMLI. Private. PO/1339 (S). 2nd RM Btn. RND. Died 06/04/1918. 2nd Royal Marine Battalion Draft for BEF 25/09/1916. Born Ravarra, Ballygowan 14/08/1896 ; Next-of-Kin: Sister, Agnes McKee, Ravarra, Ballygowan, Co.Down. Pozieres Memorial, Panel 1, Somme, France. Ballygowan - PCI RH
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