2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles saw action at many of the Second World War's most famed moments from the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940 to the D-Day landings.
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The body of Rifleman Alexander Wright of Portadown, Co. Armagh washed ashore at St. Nazaire. Records suggest he may have died in the sinking of S.S. Lancastria.
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Corporal Aubrey Burke died in a tragic accident on the River Bann in his hometown of Portadown, Co. Armagh having served in 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles.
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Serjeant Charles Joseph McVeigh of Portadown, Co. Armagh died on 12th August 1944 as a result of shrapnel wounds while serving with the Royal Ulster Rifles.
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Rifleman George McNeill of Belfast died on 28th May 1940 serving in the rear guard with 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles as the B.E.F. withdrew to Dunkirk.
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Rifleman Hugh Joseph Thompson of Linwood Street, Belfast served with 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles during the Dunkirk evacuation of May and June 1940.
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Rifleman John Robert Gilpin of Cultra, Co. Down saw action with 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles in the British Expeditionary Force's evacuation from Dunkirk.
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Rifleman Samuel Tweedy of Belfast died in Germany on 13th April 1945 while 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles engaged the enemy near the village of Harpstedt.
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Rifleman Thomas Majurey of Belfast died of wounds on 3rd June 1940 having returned to England with the British Expeditionary Force from the Dunkirk evacuation.
