Memorial Plague at St. Anne's Cathedral, Belfast

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
8TH (BELFAST) HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT REGIMENT, ROYAL ARTILLERY (S.R.)
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR KING AND COUNTRY
IN EUROPE, INDIA AND BURMA, IN THE WAR 1939 - 1945

When you go home
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our to-day.

We will remember them.

ROLL OF HONOUR

The 8th Belfast Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt.
Royal Artillery (S.R.)

** unfortunately there is an error on the memorial, O. Barnhill should be D. Barnhill, David Barnhill's details are here

Gunner J. Shields, who died in Burma , was also an original ‘Derry Boy’. On the day the Regiment left for the ME, he fell from a lorry, from which he was unloading kitbags, and broke an arm or a leg – I’m not sure which – and by the time he had recovered 8 HAA Regt was back from France and so he was posted to them. He died after losing a hand in Burma . Apparently, he was quite lucid when he was being taken for medical treatment and commented that this would get him back to Britain but later died, either from shock or septicemia - details supplied by Richard Doherty