Royal Navy
H.M. Motor Minesweeper 117 was commissioned by the Royal Navy on 7th April 1942. On 1st September 1944, it struck a mine off the coast of Civitavecchia, Italy.
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Leading Seaman Frederick Caulfield married Margaret Boyd of Bangor, Co. Down in 1936. He died on 1st September 1944 while serving on a Royal navy Minesweeper.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, 4th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment was a Territorial Army Unit. It would see action in Normandy and the Netherlands.
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Private George Arthur Larkins of London, England married Myra Sinton Stevenson of Portadown, Co. Armagh in July 1943 before serving in the Normandy campaign.
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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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Lance Serjeant Thomas Henry England of Baltylum, Portadown, Co. Armagh served in 3rd Battalion, Irish Guards at his time of death on 11th August 1944 in France.
6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers landed in Normandy on 15th June 1944, taking part in heavy fighting around the city of Caen and the River Odon.
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Private Ernest Smith of Montague Street, Portadown, Co. Armagh served in Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers then seeing action in Normandy.
On 11th June 1944, 11th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers landed in Normandy, France, and began to fight their way west reaching the village of Vimont by August.
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Lance Corporal William Henry Wolsey, son of a notable newspaper owner in Co. Armagh died during the battle of Normandy while serving in a Scottish regiment.
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Sergeant James Ernest Ivor "Jimmy" Clulow of Portadown, Co. Armagh was a well-respected soldier in his time with the North Irish Horse in the Italian campaign.
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Guardsman Edmund Noel Anderson of Belfast died on 3rd August 1944 as 3rd Battalion, Irish Guards advanced from St. Charles de Percy during Operation BLUECOAT.