14th December in wartime Northern Ireland

We remember those who died on 14th December throughout the war, and look back at the visit of the Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia to Northern Ireland.

M. Jan Masaryk in Belfast

On 14th December 1942, M. Jan Masaryk (Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia) and General Sergej Ingr laid a commemorative wreath at the Cenotaph in Belfast.

General Sergej Ingr (Minister of National Defence and Commander in Chief of Czechoslovakian Forces) shakes hands with a battalion commander of the Gloucestershire Regiment who formed a guard of honour at Belfast City Hall during the visit of M. Jan Masaryk (Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia) to Northern Ireland. — ©IWM H 26275 Info

General Sergej Ingr (Minister of National Defence and Commander in Chief of Czechoslovakian Forces) inspects a Gloucestershire Regiment guard of honour at Belfast City Hall during the visit of M. Jan Masaryk (Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia) to Northern Ireland. — ©IWM H 26276 Info

M. Jan Masaryk (Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia), Alderman D. Lyle Hall (Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast), Alderman T. Henderson M.P. (High Sheriff of Belfast), Brigadier General Leroy P. Collins, Major General Vivian Henry Bruce Majendie (General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District) at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall. — ©IWM H 26278 Info

General Sergej Ingr (Minister of National Defence and Commander in Chief of Czechoslovakian Forces) lays a wreath at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall during the visit of M. Jan Masaryk (Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia) to Northern Ireland. — ©IWM H 26279 Info

The official party leaves the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall past a guard of honour of the Gloucestershire Regiment during the visit of M. Jan Masaryk (Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia) to Northern Ireland. — ©IWM H 26281 Info

Brigadier P. Hansen, Brigadier General Leroy P. Collins, and Major General Vivian Henry Bruce Majendie (General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District) at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall during the visit of M. Jan Masaryk (Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia) to Northern Ireland. — ©IWM H 26282 Info

Remembered on 14th December

James Clifford

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Fusilier James Clifford served in 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers during the Second World War. He died in his hometown of Belfast on 14th December 1945.