On 21st April, unidentified bodies of those people killed during the 15/6 April raid were buried in mass graves in Belfast City Cemetery and Milltown Cemetery. Protestants were buried in the former and Catholics in the latter. The memorial in…
ByadminEmma Duffin was Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) commandant of the Stranmillis Military Hospital. The VAD was a voluntary unit of civilians providing nursing care for military personnel in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire.[1] Duffin had been…
ByadminThe Belfast Telegraph reported that ‘dangerous’ animals at the zoo had been destroyed to protect the public in the event of bomb damage to their enclosures that may permit their escape. In all 33 animals were put down including a…
ByadminThe city continued to come to terms with the attack. The newspapers gave details of how people could get food, support and water.[1] The Northern Whig set out how people could unidentified dead at St Georges’ market in order to…
Byadmin17 April 1941 (Thursday) – Belfast 1941 Blitz Diary The Irish Times editorial on 17 April reported that: ‘Humanity knows no borders, no politics, no differences of religious belief. Yesterday for once the people of Ireland were united under the shadow…
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