NORTHERN IRELAND CADETS PAY REMEMBRANCE DAY TRIBUTES

As Remembrance Sunday commemorations took place across Northern Ireland, Air, Sea and Army cadets paid their respects to the nation’s fallen at the solemn act of Remembrance at Belfast’s Cenotaph.

They joined the hundreds who gathered amidst pouring rain at the Garden of Remembrance at City Hall for a two-minute silence to honour those killed in World Wars One and Two and later conflicts.

Remembrance Sunday was originally conceived as a commemoration of the war dead of the First World War but, following World War II, the scope of the ceremony was extended to focus on the nation’s dead of both World Wars, and, in 1980, it was widened further in remembrance to all who have suffered and died in conflict in the service of their country and those who mourn them.

Pictured above left:  Petty Officer Cadet Patrick Bingham from TS Eagle, who serves as Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant’s Cadet for the County Borough of Belfast.
Above centre: Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major Carson McKee, who also serves as Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant’s Cadet for the County Borough of Belfast.
Above right: Cadet Ryan Black from South Belfast Air Cadets.

Pictured above left:  Sea Cadets (from left) Lauren Mitchell, Darrell Mitchell, Olivia Smith and James Smith.
Above right:  South Belfast Air Cadets (from left) Ryan Black, Ryan Spence, Cameron McDonald, Andrew Fitzsimmons and Michael Cardwell.

Above left:  Members of the Whitehouse Army Cadet Force Detachment prepare for their part in the commemorations, pictured on the Grand Staircase at Belfast City Hall.Cadet: From left are Cadet Corporal Kaci Smith; Cadet Lance Corporal Brittney Heatherington; Cadet Jack Carlisle; Adult Instructor, Sergeant Natasha Rutherford; Adult Instructor, Sergeant Thomas Crawford; Cadet Lance Corporal Catherine Robinson; Cadet Layla Creaney and Cadet Lance Corporal Nathan Ferris.
 
Above right: Whitehouse ACF Detachment Commander, Lieutenant Roger Moore, began his association with the Detachment as a teenager. On Sunday he was proud to see his children, Cadet Sergeant Emily (17) and Cadet Corporal Harry (15), follow in family tradition as the trio were on duty together for Remembrance Sunday in Belfast.

  

Pictured above left:  Army Cadet Nadia Murphy; above centre:  Petty Officer Andrew Stephenson, Adult Instructor with TS Eagle; above right:  Army Cadet Jack Bothwell.

Picture above left:  Holywood Air Cadets (from left) Sean McMahorn, Emily Beckett and Nathan Dillan.