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Marine Robert James Carson of Empire Drive, Belfast served in The Great War and the Second World War, with 22 years of service in the Royal Marines by 1941.
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Signalman John Quirey saw action with 36th Ulster Division in The Great War before re-enlisting in the Royal Corps of Signals during the Second World War.
Royal naval Patrol Service
H.M.T. Bervie Braes was a British-built trawler that served in the Royal Naval Patrol Service branch of the Royal Navy during the years of the Second World War.
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Stoker William James Graham Hunter of Portadown, Co. Armagh served on H.M.T. Bervie Braes with the Royal Naval Patrol Service branch of the Royal Navy.
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Warrant Officer Henry Higgins served in Ulster with No. 968 Barrage Balloon Squadron during the Second World War, living in Bangor, Co. Down at the time.
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Fusilier Patrick McCann of Lurgan, Co. Armagh served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, seeing action in Malta during the early years of the Second World War.
Royal Navy
The Fleet Air Arm is the Royal Navy's aviation branch. During the Second World War, they operated from bases and aircraft carriers such as H.M.S. Formidable.
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Petty Officer Airman Harold Aloysius Glover was the husband of Eileen May Glover of Portrush, Co. Antrim. He served in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm in wartime.
By 1940, Royal Air Force 220 Squadron had converted to Lockheed Hudson Mark II light bombers carrying out "strike" or anti-shipping missions over the North Sea.
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Sergeant William Edward Callaghan of Portadown, Co. Armagh died on 27th December 1940 while flying as part of a an anti-shipping mission over the North Sea.
Merchant Navy
On 2nd December 1940, U-47 fired a single torpedo, striking S.S. Ville d'Arlon amidships and sinking the British merchant vessel in the mid-Atlantic ocean.
Cattleman James Hamill of Portadown, Co. Armagh served in the Merchant Navy. He was on S.S. Ville d'Arlon when it came under attack in the Atlantic in 1940.
