REMEMBRANCE DAY TRIBUTES PAID BY NORTHERN IRELAND RESERVISTS

As Remembrance Sunday commemorations took place across Northern Ireland, Reservists from the 3 services 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: Proud to be one of those forming the Guard of Honour at the ceremony was Army Reservist, Sergeant Stephen O’Neill from Ballyclare.

Above right: Leading the blend of stirring and sombre military music which is a hallmark of the civic occasion was Ballymena Army Reservist, Drum Major Nigel Gallagher.

Pictured above is Aircraftwoman K Cannon, a member of 502 RAuxAF Sqn, based at Aldergrove.

Reservists from 591 Field Squadron, 71 Engineer Regiment, based in Bangor, also paid tribute at the Whitehall Cenotaph act of remembrance in London.

Their Officer Commanding, Major Gareth Dawson said: “This was a tremendous privilege on such a poignant occasion to be representing the Army Reserve in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen to remember our fallen. Many of the Squadron have lost family or friends on operations in years past; the opportunity to pay tribute to them in this way is very special”.

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