Belfast City Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast

Royal Air Force personnel buried in Belfast City Cemetery

During the Second World War, many members of the Royal Air Force including those who served with the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Air Forces died while serving or training in Northern Ireland.

Thomas Arthur Mewhort

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Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Arthur Mewhort died at Campbell College Military Hospital in his hometown of Belfast on 20th September 1942. He was 44 years old.

U.S. Military personnel buried in Belfast City Cemetery

Between 1942 and 1943, several members of the United States Forces who died in Northern Ireland were laid to rest in Belfast City Cemetery before the opening of a purpose-built cemetery at Lisnabreeny.

George A. Beigel

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New Yorker Private George A. Beigel served in 1st Armored Division, U.S. Army at his time of death in Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast on 6th July 1942.

Earl Ervin Perkins

On 7th March 1942, Corporal Earl Ervin Perkins of 34th (Red Bull) Infantry Division, U.S. Army became the first American GI to die in Northern Ireland.

Harold J. Staats

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Private Harold J. Staats died on 20th September 1942 having sustained a gunshot wound to the head while on sentry duty at a U.S. military barracks in Belfast.

John Arnold Strouse

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Private John Arnold Strouse of St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. died as a result of a tragic accident at a camp in Derry~Londonderry while serving in the U.S. Army.