LENNON WYLIE
Belfast street directories   -   home   -   WW1 & WW2 Stuff   -   Genealogy Links
Please sign my Guestbook 


please donate

http:--www.lennonwylie.co.uk
 

"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, 
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"

8th Belfast H.A.A. Regt.

aka   'The Twelve Mile Snipers'
message board

 

WW1 Soldiers database               8th Index               WW2 Soldiers database

meems@marylennon.co.uk

The Men

Colonel Harry Porter     Jimmy McKittrick

Colonel Wm. N. Brann

Gnr. Jim Lennon's War Records - Photos

Sergeant William Adrain - Diary and Biography

D. J. Bailie - War Diary and Photographs

Bdr. William (Buttons) Hunter

Sgt. Thomas Herbert Coulter (Herbie)

Jimmy Cunningham's Private Army Comes Home 

Sidney Ernest Wright - Diary & Photographs

Sgt. Joseph Harold Lynn (aka Harry-Joe)

Irvine Brothers 23rd Battery

Matchett Brothers 23rd Battery

Obituaries  *  Memorials  Changi Prison Chapel

NOMINAL ROLLS, etc.

N-O-K- Dec'd Personnel 21/22/23 Hy.A.A.

Posted/Repatriated from 23 HY A.A.

List of Additional Soldiers

List of names, no addresses 23rd Bty.

Memorial Service Book (list of names) B Troop

22nd Bty. Memorial Brochure  names, addresses

23rd Bty. Memorial Brochure  names, addresses

RHQ/REME Memorial Brochure, addresses

Nominal Roll 21st Bty. all ranks

Nominal Roll 22nd Bty. all ranks

Nominal Roll 23rd Bty. all ranks

8th Belfast HAA Nominal Roll 21st Battery

8th Belfast HAA Nominal Roll 22nd Battery

8th Belfast HAA Nominal Roll 23rd Battery

Alterations & Additions to Nom. Rolls 23rd

RHQ / REME Nominal Rolls

 Poppy Appeal 

FreeFoto.com

Newspaper Clippings

Assorted Clippings 1

Assorted Clippings 2

WW1 War Diary

Correspondence

Photographs

Sport & Small Groups

8th Belfast Band

Individuals & Friends

Large Group Pictures

8th Belfast Band items

Documents

Old Comrades Section

Misc.

Northern Whig Tribute

8th Belfast HAA History
by Colonel Murray Barnes, OBE , TD.

A short History of The 8th (Belfast) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery (Supplementary Reserve)
by Harry Porter

MEMORABILIA

Poems

Burma Star Luncheon 2009

YOUTUBE Videos

Harry Porters film of the Twelve Mile Snipers (in 3 parts) on YouTube

Burma Star Luncheon

Video Page

Harry Porters film of the Twelve Mile Snipers (in 3 parts) on this site

other WW2 stories

Cpl. William F. Davison

Belfast Telegraph Tuesday June, 6, 1944 Invasion


Matchett Brothers
photographs supplied by their Great Niece Lucy
1457383 Gnr. Matchet, H. M M - 5yrs 85 Upper Canning Street, Belfast 25   05/12 24.04.39 S.R. 4yrs Yes Labourer Yes Gallacher, Belfast
(Gallagher/Gallaher)
1469527 Gnr. Matchett, W. H. M M - 8 2ms
M - 6yrs
M - 3½yrs
31 Kilronan Street, Belfast 34   06/12 06.06.39 S.R. 4yrs Yes Flour Packer Yes J. B. Rank & Co. Ltd., Pacific Flour Mills, Belfast
1467221 Gnr. Matchett, J. H. M F - 7  11ms
F - 7  11ms
M - 4  8ms
71 Collyer Street, Belfast 30   03/12 17.05.39 S.R. 4yrs Yes Tobacco Worker Yes Messrs. Gallaher Ltd., York Street, Belfast

 


      Billy Matchett RHS                                      Harry Matchett LHS & Jim Wright

Jim and Billy Matchett


Harry Matchett, wife Louie and Son Harold


Harry Matchett LHS