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On this day - St Patrick and ShamrocksPage �1
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Shamrock presentation parades trace their origins to the turn of the 20th century, when Queen Victoria instructed her Irish regiments to wear a sprig of shamrock in their head dress to "commemorate the gallantry" of her Irish soldiers in the South African war
1916 - The Ulster Division
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On St Patrick's Day in 1916 the Ulster Division was presented their shamrocks supplied by Sir General George Richardson Officer Commanding the Ulster Volunteer Force
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1917
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Irish wolf hound - Regimental mascot of the Irish Guards, St Patrick’s Day 1917
Leitrim Boy was an Irish wolf hound and regimental mascot of the Irish guards.
This photograph was taken on St Patrick's Day 1917. The Irish Guards regiment was formed on 1 April 1900 by order of Queen Victoria to commemorate the "Fighting Irish" who fought in the Second Boer War for the British Empire. Princess Alexandra presented the Regiment with Shamrock for the first time in 1901 for the bravery that Irish troops had shown.
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1944 - The Irish Brigade in Italy
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CQMS Edmund O'Sullivan 2 LIR in records:
"We were warned that our time had come again but the brigade had been allowed to celebrate St Patrick’s Day out of the line. I was MC at the Brigade Mass. The
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celebrant was Father Dan Kelleher, a former amateur boxer..
Brigadier Scott was present, as were all the officers of the Irish Fusiliers, the Catholic Skins and London Irish officers. That evening we had a party in the sergeants’ mess marquee and the officers were invited. As usual, it developed into rugger scrums and a brawl."
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Brigadier Pat Scott, wrote about 17th March 1944 -
"Patrick’s Day was the next orgy.... I had made a secret arrangement with the General that nothing short of a calamity would cause him to move the brigade before late on the 18th…
“…I kept this secret pact to myself for obvious reasons but was glad I had it when I saw the shape the party was taking. Italy is a country of unlimited, cheap and potent wine and sometimes worse."
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Roll of Honour - March 17Representing their fallen comrades on this date
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Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
St. Omer was the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force from October 1914 to March 1916. The town was a considerable hospital centre with the 4th, 10th, 7th Canadian, 9th Canadian and New Zealand Stationary Hospitals, the 7th, 58th (Scottish) and 59th (Northern) General Hospitals, and the 17th, 18th and 1st and 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations all stationed there at some time during the war. The Commonwealth section of the cemetery contains 2,874 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (6 unidentified).
The graves of two members of the North Irish Horse Corporal DW Ritchie and Private W Irwin are here (See below).
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1915
+HAWTHORNE, Rifleman John. Born in Lambeg, he enlisted at Belfast and served in 1 RIR (9452). KIA in France on the 17.3.15, his death is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.
+RITCHIE, David WilliamNorth Irish Horse. Corporal. 754. Died 17/03/1915, Aged 27. He enlisted in the North Irish Horse in October or November 1912. On 26 January 1915 he embarked for France as part of a reinforcement draft for A and C Squadrons under 2nd Lieutenant Armstrong. He probably became ill soon after, for he died at No.10 Stationery Hospital, St OmerBorn at Kilrea on 10/11/1886, the fourth child of farmer John Ritchie and his wife Sarah (nee Patten). Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
+BERRY, Christopher Barnett RN. Artificer. M/11326. HMS Indus. Died:17/03/1915 of cerebral spinal meningitis in RN Hospital, Plymouth Aged 16. Boy service to 21/02/1915. Born Banbridge 30/01/1899. Son of Robert and Arabella Berry, Springfield Rd., Belfast. Ford Park Cemetery (formerly Plymouth Old Cemetery). ADM 188/1040/11326
1916
+LEONARD, Isaac
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). 8th Bn. Private. L/10978. Died 17/03/1916. Londonderry. Menim Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
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1917
+ALLAN, ErnestRN. ERA IV. M/18490. HMS Mignonette. Died 17/03/1917. Aged 25. Pembroke II and Wallington (Mignonette 06/09/1916 - 17/03/1917). Son of Henry and Rebecca Allan, Horwich, Bolton, Lancs. Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 23. Arthur Square, Belfast Lodge 22, Masonic RH. ADM 188/1054/18490
1942+COOK, Derek Alfred RAFVR. Pilot Officer. 68173. Died 17/03/1942. Aged 21. 49 Squadron, Died on Active Service (Family Memorial). Son of Herbert John and Elsie May Cook of Bangor. Bangor Cemetery
+MAKER, Mary Jane MarionWRNS. Wren. 7037. Died 17/03/1943. Aged 22. HMS Heron. Daughter of James and Julia Maker, Londonderry. Glendermot Church of Ireland Churchyard and New Cemetery
1944
+CAMPBELL, David Mark
RAFVR. Flight-Lieutenant. 120419. 107 Sqdn. Died 17/03/1944. Aged 31. B Age 1935 QUB. Son of David and Elizabeth Campbell, of Kerrykeel. Clondevaddock (Christ the Redeemer C of I Churchyard), Co. Donegal. QUB RH
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+DIGBY, Malachy
RAF. Leading Aircraftman. 619951. Died 17/03/1944. Aged 36. Son of Thomas and Susan Digby, of Armagh, Northern Ireland; husband to Mary Digby, of Armagh. El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt
HMS Belfast launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard, Belfast, 17 March 1938.
Commissioned 17/03/1943
COWSER, Margaret JaneWRNS. Second Officer 17/03/1943 (London Gazette 25/02/1944). Posted to HMS Pembroke I, 26/06/1940. WOPE, QUB 1927
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On this day - March 171938
HMS Belfast launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard, Belfast, 17 March 1938. Yard number: 1000. Ordered: 21 September 1936. Laid down 10 December 1936. Launched: 17 March 1938. Completed: 3 August 1939. Commissioned:
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5 August 1939. Decommissioned: 24 August 1963. Museum ship since 21 October 197 in London, UK
1940
Fritz Todt named German Minister for Armaments and Munitions.
1941
The 11th African Division captures Jijiga in central Abyssinia; having advanced 744 miles up the Italian built Strada Imperiale in just seventeen days.
In convoy HX-112, British destroyer Walker causes U-99 to scuttle (40/43 captured, including famous captain Otto Kretschmer).
British begin to ration jam & marmalade (8 oz per month).
162 planes of the Luftwaffe bombed the Avonmouth district of Bristol
1942
General MacArthur flown by B-17 from Mindanao to Australia.
The deportation of Jews from Lublin to Belzec begins.
Britain begins rationing fuel and electricity.
The first mass gassings began at the Belzec Concentration Camp, near Lublin, on March 17, 1942
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1943
Bulgaria, an Axis power allied with Germany, refused to comply with a German demand that Bulgarian Jews be deported to Nazi concentration camps. The Parliament voted unanimously to revoke plans that had been made by government minister Alexander Belev to arrest Bulgaria’s Jewish citizens (although deportations had taken place in the conquered territories of Macedonia and Thrace). “As a result of these protests,” it was observed, “no Bulgarian Jews were deported to the gas chambers from Bulgaria itself.
The Japanese attack British positions in Arakan, western Burma leading to Indian retreat.
Lieutenant General George Patton launches drive in Tunisia from Fériana, and occupies Gafsa.
1944
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A Polish woman Helena Płotnicka (b. 1902), prisoner no. 65492 died in Auschwitz of typhoid. She was a member of resistance active near the isolated camp area and was
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engaged in helping prisoners of the German camp. She smuggled food and messages for them.
The British blow up the Manipur bridge South of Imphal.
New Zealand troops take Cassino railway station.
1945
The U.S. Third Army takes Koblenz.
The Ludendorff bridge at Remagen, seized by US troops on the 7th March, suddenly collapses, killing dozens of US Army engineers working to reinforce it. —American engineers erect new pontoon bridge in ten hours.
Acknowledgments
Admiralty recordsCWGCMasonic Order RHNorth Irish Horse RHQUB Roll of Honour
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