Helen West Burrows, Gerald Burrows, and Mary Burrows set sail on S.S. Athenia from Belfast on 1st September 1939. Tragedy struck when U-30 torpedoed the liner.
Mary Burrows, Helen West Burrows, and Gerald Burrows set sail on S.S. Athenia from Belfast on 1st September 1939. Tragedy struck when U-30 torpedoed the liner.
Two women named Elizabeth Campbell boarded S.S. Athenia from Belfast on 1st September 1939. Both survived although landed on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Mabel Carroll, a 43 year old housewife, boarded S.S. Athenia at Belfast on 1st September 1939 giving an address at Fivemiletown, Co. Fermanagh at the time.
Mary Carroll departed Belfast on S.S. Athenia on 1st September 1939. She survived the torpedo attack and landed with other survivors at Greenock in Scotland.
John Armstrong Chanler and Eleanor Suzanne Barbara Chanler boarded the ill-fated S.S. Athenia at Belfast on 1st September 1939 and later survived the sinking.
Eleanor Suzanne Barbara Chanler and John Armstrong Chanler boarded the ill-fated S.S. Athenia at Belfast on 1st September 1939 and later survived the sinking.
2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment formed in England in 1940. By 1941, the regiment was part of the Tobruk garrison, serving in North Africa until disbandment.
27th Searchlight Regiment
British Army
During the Second World War, over one million service personnel served in the Royal Artillery. There were 960 regiments in action worldwide between 1939-1945.
During the Second World War, thousands of soldiers and officers with connections to Northern Ireland served in the ranks of the British Army across the globe.
