5th Infantry Division
15th Infantry Brigade was part of 5th Infantry Division of the British Army during its time in Northern Ireland defending against the threat of Nazi invasion.
Merchant Navy
Several seafaring men with connections to Northern Ireland died on S.S. Cadillac as the British merchant tanker came under torpedo attack on 1st March 1941.
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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.
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Awarded the Military Medal for his actions during the Normandy campaign, Rifleman Andrew Charles of Magherafelt was one of the last surviving D-Day veterans.
Infantry
11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)
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Official records state that Private First Class Milburn Henke of Hutchinson, Minnesota, U.S.A. was the first GI to step into the European Theater of Operations.
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Sergeant Alexander Liggett served in 7 Royal Tank Regiment during the Second World War. His military career took him from Portadown to Palestine and on to war.
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Corporal Albert Dane Boshnett served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. He played in the first game of American Football in Northern Ireland in 1942.
C.B., D.S.O., M.C.
From May 1941 - July 1943, Lieutenant General Harold Edmund Franklyn C.B., D.S.O., M.C. was General Officer Commanding British Troops in Northern Ireland.
Born in Newtownards, Co. Down, Paddy Mayne was a poetry lover, a pack powerhouse, a paratrooper, and a founding member of the Special Air Service in 1941.
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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.
