1st June 1940
On 1st June 1940, personnel from Northern Ireland continued the fight at Dunkirk. Four years later, Belfast witnessed the crash of a B-17 bomber at Cave Hill.
30th May 1940
On 30th May 1940, many soldiers with connections to Northern Ireland were caught up in the evacuation of Dunkirk, on the beaches or fighting in the rear guard.
28th May 1940
On 28th May 1940, 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles fell back from Boesinghe to Woesten as part of the rear guard as the B.E.F. made their way to Dunkirk.
26th May 1940
Between 26th May - 4th June 1940, Operation DYNAMO saw the evacuation of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port town of Dunkirk.
2nd May 1940
On 2nd May 1944, 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers sustained several casualties with connections to Northern Ireland while fighting in Anzio, Italy.
16th April 1940
On the night of 15th-16th April 1941, the Luftwaffe launched a deadly raid on Northern Ireland in what became known as the Easter Raid of the Belfast Blitz.
17th March 1940
During the Second World War, the tradition of presenting the shamrock and the wearing of the green among Irish regiments of the British Army continued.
6th January 1940
We tend to think of the Second World War as a time of food rations and condensed milk but in Ballymena, Co. Antrim in 1940, they were having some fun with food.
1st January 1940
Local voices from Belfast broadcast across the airwaves in 1940, with a hopeful New Year's message to the United Kingdom and The Empire.
17th November 1939
On 17th November 1939, a newspaper photographer watched naval ratings turn over the engine of their planes at Aldergrove. In 1940, R.A.F. training was underway.
15th November 1939
On 15th November 1939, a Belfast Telegraph photographer observed airmen of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm in training at Sydenham Airfield in east Belfast.
13th November 1939
November 1942 saw Lieutenant Bainbridge and his War Office camera focus on soldiers of The Pioneer Corps and a possibly unique company of the Ulster Home Guard.
